Research on the Role and Interpretive Mechanism of Chains in Syntax within the Minimalist Program of Generative Grammar

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In this research project, we have shed further light on the nature of chains, making clear a number of aspects of their formation and interpretation. We have argued that chains are bona fide syntactic objects and that chains may arise not only by way of syntactic movement, which creates multiple occurrences of a single lexical selection, but also in cases where the system fails to distinguish between multiple selections of the same lexical item when these selections fall very close together, in terms of a phase-based locality.