ABSTRACT
How much do the Theory of Movement and the Theory of Government have in common? The Theory of Movement deals basically with superficially unbounded syntactic dependencies between identical categories, two NPs as in NP movement, two identical phrasal projections as in Wh Movement or two identical word level categories as in head movement. By contrast, the Theory of Government deals with extremely local syntactic relations between categories of different levels, most of the time a word level category and an NP as in Case assignment, theta role assignment or agreement relations.
