This highly original monograph treats movement operations within the                  Minimalist Program. Jairo Nunes argues that traces are not grammatical primitives                  and that their properties follow from deeper features of the system, and, in                  particular, that the phonetic realization of traces is determined by linearization                  computations coupled with economy conditions regarding deletion. He proposes a                  version of the copy theory of movement according to which movement must be construed                  as a description of the interaction of the independent operations Copy, Merge, Form                  Chain, and Chain Reduction. Empirical evidence to support this claim includes                  instances of "sideward movement" between subtrees in a derivation. According to this                  analysis, the linearization of chains in the phonological component constrains                  sideward movement so that it is possible to account for standard properties of                  multiple gap constructions, including parasitic gap and ATB constructions, without                  construction-specific operations or principles that are not independently                  motivated.Theoretical linguists will find Linearization of Chains and Sideward                  Movement of great interest both theoretically and empirically. The version of the                  copy theory of movement proposed by Nunes will stir debate and shape future research                  in the field.

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