ABSTRACT
In the preceding two chapters, we have seen that apparent violations of the shortest movement requirement (Chomsky (1992» in NP-movement and head movement can be handled within the Minimalist Program with a slight modification of the notion of equidistance. In this chapter, we will be concerned with still another instance of long-distance dependency: Long-distance anaphora, which is seemingly in conflict with the economy principle. We will argue that the notion of equidistance also plays a crucial role in constraining the locality of dependencies between certain types of anaphors and their antecedents.
