ABSTRACT

As we saw in chapters 10 and 11, it also restricts NP-movement, ruling out examples like the following:

(8)a. * Hobbs; is thought e; admires Rhodes. b. * Hobbs; is thought Rhodes to admire e;

(9)a. * Hobbsj appears admires Rhodes, b. * Hobbsj appears Rhodes to admire

(5b) prevents ordinary pronouns from having antecedents that are too close. For example, it prevents Hobbs from being understood as the antecedent of him in the following:

(10)a. Hobbs saw him. b. Hobbs expects him to be popular.