This monograph explores several complex questions concerning the theories                 of government and bounding, including, in particular, the possibility of a unified                 approach to these topics. Starting with the intuitive idea that certain categories                 in certain configurations are barriers to government and movement, it considers                 whether the same categories are barriers in the two instances or whether one barrier                 suffices to block government (a stricter and "more local" relation) while more than                 one barrier inhibits movement, perhaps in a graded manner.Any proposal concerning                 the formulation of the concept of government has intricate consequences, and many of                 the empirical phenomena that appear to be relevant are still poorly understood.                 Similarly, judgments about the theory of movement also involve a number of different                 factors, including sensitivity to lexical choice. Therefore, Chomsky proceeds on the                 basis of speculations as to the proper idealization of complex phenomena - how they                 should be sorted into a variety of interacting systems (some of which remain quite                 obscure), which may tentatively be put aside to be explained by independent                 (sometimes unknown) factors, and which may be considered relevant to the subsystems                 under investigation.Barriers considers several possible paths through the maze of                 possibilities that arise. It sets the subtheory context (x-bar theory, theory of                 movement, and government) for determining what constitutes a barrier and explores                 two concepts of barrier - maximal projection and the minimality condition - and                 their manifestations in and implications for proper government, subjacency, island                 violations, vacuous movement, parasitic gaps, and A-chains.Noam Chomsky is Institute                 Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT. Barriers is Linguistic Inquiry                 Monograph 13.

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