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Constraints on movement rules

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2026

Ray Cattell
Ray Cattell*
Affiliation:
University of Newcastle, New South Wales
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Abstract

A single derivational constraint is here proposed to account for the same data as Ross's Complex NP, Sentential Subject, and Coördinate Structure Constraints. However, if constraints on derivations are not only to prevent the generation of structurally ill-formed strings, but also to illuminate their ungrammaticality fully, they must be combined with certain conditions on structure. It is claimed that the proposed derivational constraint and structural principles are deeply motivated by the nature of the grammar itself, and that their implications for the theory of innateness are rather different from those normally cited for Ross's constraints.

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 52 , Issue 1 , March 1976 , pp. 18 - 50
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Copyright © 1976 by Linguistic Society of America

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