ABSTRACT
Building on the previous chapter, I show here how the seemingly different possibilities of raising across an experiencer in Italian and English can receive a uniform treatment. My proposal amounts to saying that ‘overt’ (Agree + Remerge) and ‘covert’ (pure Agree) operations have the same locality, but because they involve distinct sets of features, they are not blocked by the same class of intervening elements. The present analysis supports the elimination of the overt/covert component distinction (the temporal asymmetry between overt syntax and covert syntax), but crucially assumes that not all ‘covert’ operations can be analyzed in terms of lower copy pronunciation. At least some instances of long-distance feature checking must not involve any movement of any sort. The chapter suggests that Person-features may be crucially implicated in the nature of EPP effects.
