Antecedent government

Antecedent government is a relation that holds between a and i if a governs i and is coindexed with i.

See also

ECP

Link

Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics

References

• Chomsky, Noam A. 1986b. Barriers. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
• Chomsky, Noam A. 1981. Lectures on Government and Binding. Dordrecht:Foris.
• Lasnik, H. and M. Saito 1984. On the nature of proper government. Linguistic Inquiry 15, 235-289.
• Lasnik, H. and M. Saito 1992. Move alpha: conditions on its application and output. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
• Rizzi, L. 1990. Relativized Minimality. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.