PARASITIC PARTICIPLES

Frisian exhibits the curious phenomenon of parasitic participles. one occurrence of the perfect auxiliary is able to license more than one p erfect participle. Recursive checking (a one-many relation) is possibl e just in case the feature that recurs is not the one that is semantic ally interpreted. Thus the feature on the perfect auxiliary is the one that is semantically interpreted Central to our analysis is a relativ ization of the head-movement constraint: movement of X across Y is ill egitimate if Y possesses features relevant to X.