AN INTERPRETIVE EFFECT OF HEAD MOVEMENT 1

Grohmann, Idan Landau, Howard Lasnik, Roland Hinterholzl, Henk vanRiemsdijk, Wolfgang Sternefeld, Uli Sauerland and in particular Orin Percus for discussion, and the audiences of GACL 1 (Cyprus), Incontro XXXI (Rome), and Glow 2005 (Geneva) for comments. Kyle Johnson, Chris Kennedy, Jason Merchant and Orin Percus kindly provided judgements. A long version of this paper circulates as Lechner (2005a).

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