Across-the-Board Extraction in Minimalist Grammars.
Gregory M. Kobele · 2008
Minimalist grammars cannot provide ad-equate descriptions of constructions in which a single filler saturates two mutu-ally independent gaps, as is commonly an-alyzed to be the case in parasitic gap con-structions and other across-the-board ex-traction phenomena. In this paper, I show how a simple addition to the minimalist grammar formalism allows for a unified treatment of control and parasitic gap phe-nomena, and can be restricted in such a way as to account for across-the-board ex-ceptions to the coordinate structure con-straint. In the context of standard con-straints on movement, the weak generative capacity of the formalism remains unaf-fected.