Local economy and Generalized Pied-Piping

In developing and elaborating the theory of Attract-F, Chomsky (1995) propo ses the mechanism of Generalized Pied-Piping. According to Chomsky, when a formal feature of a head H attracts a matching feature of a category Psi, o ther formal features of a category Psi can be moved automatically, without any cost in terms of the general economy condition, to the target H togethe r with the feature that is attracted to H. In this paper it will be demonst rated, contra Chomsky's (1995) proposal, that the application of Generalize d Pied-Piping should be somehow constrained by the economy condition as lon g as the computation involved in the grammar of the human language (what Ch omsky 1994 calls C-HL) is conducted only in a strictly derivational manner. This paper, therefore, claims that Generalized Pied-Piping, just like Move /Attract, is a kind of syntactic operation subject to the general economy c ondition under the view that C-HL is strictly derivational.