On the Status of the So-Called Right Roof Constraint.

Grosu, Alexander

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Publication Date: 1973

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On the Status of the So-Called Right Roof Constraint

Grosu, Alexander

Language, 49, 2, 294-311, Jun 73

The right roof constraint'' is the assumption that rightward-movement rules are always upward-bounded; see J.R. Ross' dissertation, Constraints on Variables in Syntax'' (MIT, 1967). (RS)

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Deep Structure, Diagrams, Language Universals, Linguistic Theory, Semantics, Syntax, Transformational Generative Grammar

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