Abstract
This paper investigates the immovability of phasal complements (Abels (2003)), the (in)applicability of VP Topicalization in raising, control, and Exceptional Case-Marking constructions, and the (im)mobility of raising infinitives, small clauses, and control infinitives. I explain a variety of contrasts exhibited in these superficially unrelated movement phenomena in terms of a minimalist assumption that Value and Transfer of uninterpretable features happen simultaneously in order to satisfy the principle of Full Interpretation ((Epstein and Seely (2002), Chomsky (2007, 2008)). The proposed analysis also captures patterns of movement observed in be likely to constructions.
