This study investigates the types of movement and movement-like relations                  that link positions in syntactic structure. David Pesetsky argues that there are                  three such relations. Besides overt phasal movement, there are two distinct types of                  movement without phonological effect: covert phrasal movement and feature movement.                  Focusing on wh-questions, he shows how his classification of movement-like relations                  allows us to understand the story behind wh-questions in which an otherwise                  inviolable property of movement--"Attract Closest"--appears to be violated. By                  demonstrating that more movement takes place in such configurations than previously                  suspected, he shows that Attract Closest is actually not violated at all in these                  cases. This conclusion draws on recent research in both syntax and semantics, and                  depends crucially on Pesetsky's expanded repertoire of movement-like                  relations.Linguistic Inquiry Monograph No. 37

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