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The Korean Association for the Study of English Language and Linguistics
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Korea Journal of English Language and Linguistics - Vol. 23, No. 0, pp.713-731
ISSN: 1598-1398 (Print) 2586-7474 (Online)
Print publication date 30 Jan 2023
Received 05 Aug 2023 Revised 27 Aug 2023 Accepted 09 Sep 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15738/kjell.23..202309.713

Against Anti-Locality in A’-Movement

Yeon-Seung Kim
Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Kongju National University, Tel: 041) 850-8362 yskim@kongju.ac.kr


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Abstract

The goal of this paper is to declare that anti-locality based on the Spec-to-Spec Anti-Locality (SSAL) is not effective in accounting for that-trace effects. It is illustrated that there are many pieces of conceptual and empirical evidence against the SSAL. Accordingly, the anti-locality account for that-trace effects cannot be accepted. This paper proposes that what is crucial in alleviating that-trace effects is the property of intervening elements between CP and TP, not just the SSAL. Unfortunately this paper does not provide a comprehensive account covering all the examples regarding the adverb effect, topic islands, and fronted focus elements. With a simple conclusion that the anti-locality approach can never account for that-trace effects, we are looking forward to an analysis attributing a difference in the property of intervening elements between CP and TP to a structural difference based on a refined CP structure.

Keywords:

anti-locality, successive cyclicity, ordering paradox, phase, Spec-to-Spec Anti-Locality, that-trace effects

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the research grant of Kongju National University in 2022.

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