ABSTRACT
Several restrictions on successive-cyclic Wh-movement appear not to be exclusively linked to general principles of the grammar, but seem to be in some sense lexically determined. It has been pointed out repeatedly that Wh-movement of subjects and adjuncts out of complement CPs of factive verbs strongly contrasts with Wh-movement of internal arguments out of these CPs (Rouveret 1980; Kayne 1981a; Zubizarreta 1982; Adams 1985): https://www.niso.org/standards/z39-96/ns/oasis-exchange/table">
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a.
* Who do you regret/understand/forget likes this book?
(=Adams 1985:(4b))
b.
* How did he deeply regret that his son had fixed the car?
c.
? Which article did you regret/understand/forget that I had selected?
