2009): Deriving Reconstruction Asymmetries

There appears to be a systematic difference in the reconstructabil-ity of noun phrases and predicates. In this paper I show that recon-structing the A/A-bar distinction in terms of slash-feature percolation and movement allows for a simple derivational formulation of the prin-ciples of binding and scope which derives a generalization very much along the lines of the one presented by Huang (1993).