摘要：(1) * I talked to t1 yesterday [someone I'd met before]1. This snippet will present evidence that there is a dialect of English in which this constraint cannot be stated in a “Markovian” fashion. Instead, it must be stated as a “global” constraint along the following lines: (2) Heavy DP Shift may not apply to a DP which has been — at any stage in the derivation — the complement of a preposition. Evidence for (2) comes from ECM subjects, which marginally undergo HDPS: (3) ? I expect t1 to do well [every boy who enters the competition]1. The complement of P can be promoted to ECM subject position via pseudopassivization: (4) I believe [every prisoner who tried to escape]1 to have been shot at t1.
