AND THE LINEAR CORRESPONDANCE AXIOM

Recent proposals have assumed that syntactic representations are con-strained by some type of Linear Correspondence Axiom (LCA), as version of which first appeared in Kayne (1994). One consequence of this assump-tion is the elimination of right-adjunction of one overt element onto another in the syntax, which in some cases can force a remnant movement analysis. This paper shows that Swahili amba-less relatives, and probably even verb forms in simple matrix clauses, are one such case. Several types of inde-pendent evidence are also examined to the effect that these verbal and rel-ative forms are maximal projections rather than complex heads, including the fact that the prosodic subconstituencies observed in the relative forms cannot be obtained by head movement. An analysis is then sketched which relies on remnant movement rather than head movement