This paper consists of two notes on Minimalist syntax, one on transfer domains and the other on labeling. Assuming Quicoli’s (2008) phase-based analysis of the locality of anaphor binding, I first argue that what is transferred upon the completion of CP phase is not the complement TP but the
vP below when φ-feature agreement is absent. This accounts for the lack of NIC effects in languages without agreement and makes Hornstein’s (1999) movement analysis of control consistent with the phase theory. In the second note, I consider the {XP, YP} problem discussed in Chomsky (2013). I propose that the dislocation of XP aids labeling of the constituent when and only when the movement is uniform, that is, A-A or A′-A′. I argue that this leads to an explanation for the ban on improper movement and also has a desirable consequence for the proposal in Saito (2016a) to eliminate the θ-criterion.
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