TURKISH COPY-RAISING AND A-CHAIN LOCALITY

This paper presents evidence from Turkish Raising Constructions that a rgues that A-chains should potentially terminate in a pronominal eleme nt. This is motivated by the possibility of raising from finite clause s in some varieties of Turkish. However, these Raising constructions d o exhibit Specified Subject Condition effects, arguing for a theory of the locality of movement that dissociates the prohibition against rai sing from finite clauses from the prohibition against crossing a speci fied subject. I argue that Rizzi's (1990) Relativized Minimality appro ach achieves this separation as a consequence of separate conditions o n formal licensing and chain locality. In particular, I propose that T urkish Raising constructions involve an A-chain whose tail is a silent pronominal (pro). Given that this type of Raising leaves a pronominal copy, neither Principle A of the Binding Theory, nor the ECP can be i nvolved (as these apply to only [-pronominal] elements). However, if a ntecedent government is taken to be a property of chains, as Rizzi pro poses, then locality will correctly be enforced in these Copy-Raising cases. This approach is extended to Exceptional Case Marking/Subject t o Object Raising constructions, and provides an argument for a Subject to Object Raising analysis. I conclude by briefly comparing the resum ptive pronoun strategy in A-and A'-dependencies. From a cross-linguist ic perspective, it appears that both allow for a relaxation of ECP eff ects as well as the mitigation of locality to varying degrees.