ABSTRACT
The main purpose of this book is to provide an adequate theory of locality. There are certain grammatical dependencies in which strict locality holds, for example, NP movement, head movement, and anaphoric binding. It has been noted in the literature that violations of this locality condition are allowed with some restricted classes of verbs, which have been known as “restructuring verbs” since Rizzi (1982). The existence of these violations challenges current syntactic theory, in particular the economy principle proposed in Chomsky (1992). We will consider how the locality conditions should be defined, given the economy principle, and we will show how the phenomena of restructuring can be incorporated into the framework of current syntactic theory.
