Abstract
In the recent literature, various arguments have been presented in favor of the existence of multiple dominance in syntax. The aim of this paper is to present another piece of evidence to support multiple dominance in syntax, based on the parasitic gap construction. It is argued that the proposed analysis captures various otherwise puzzling properties of the construction discovered in the literature. It is also shown that the proposed multiple dominance analysis is more plausible than Nunes’s (2001, 2004) sideward movement analysis. Finally this paper attempts to accommodate anti-reconstruction effects in parasitic gaps, by extending the Wholesale Late Merger hypothesis, proposed by Takahashi (2006) and Takahashi and Hulsey (2009).
