Project: Focus association by movement  

Under the influential Roothian proposal for focus association, focused phrases remain in-situ at LF (Rooth, 1985, 1992). However, a recent line of work has resurrected the idea that focus association involves covert movement: specifically, the associate of English sentential only must covertly move to only, with the possibility of covert pied-piping (Drubig, 1994; Krifka, 1996, 2006; Tancredi, 1997, 2004; Wagner, 2006; Erlewine and Kotek, 2014, to appear). In this paper we contribute to this emerging consensus view with additional evidence from reflexive binding and parasitic gap licensing.

This paper supplements “Focus association by movement: Evidence from Tanglewood“ in LI.

Keywords: binding parastic gaps Association with Focus covert movement focus only semantics syntax