ABSTRACT
This book has examined long-distance dependencies created by three grammatical processes; NP movement, head movement, and anaphoric binding. These longdistance dependencies have been taken to be exceptional, since they apparently violate the strict local conditions that generally hold in the three processes. This book explored the question of how such long-distance dependencies are allowed, and how locality conditions on them should be characterized within the Minimalist Framework of Chomsky (1992). To give them a principled account, this book argued that the notion of "shortest movement" required by the economy principle plays a crucial role.
