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Adopting the hypothesis that both NP-movement of subjects and scrambling of objects are instances of A-movement, this article aims at accounting for the similarities and differences between these movements within the so-called derivation-and-evaluation framework, which combines certain aspects from the minimalist program and optimality theory.
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Broekhuis, H. Object shift and subject shift. J Comp German Linguistics 10, 109–141 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10828-007-9009-6
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