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Example (1) illustrates a standard case of Strong Crossover (SC): (1) *Whoi does hei love ti?

My thanks to audiences at the following universities for their questions and comments on this material: UC Irvine, RU Utrecht, University of Geneva, University of Stuttgart. Thanks also to the audience at the Workshop on Representational and Derivational Theories, held in Oberkirch, November 1987, and to two anonymous reviewers of this article for this collection.

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Roberts, I. (1991). NP-Movement, Crossover and Chain-Formation. In: Haider, H., Netter, K. (eds) Representation and Derivation in the Theory of Grammar. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol 22. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3446-0_2

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