Right-Node Raising and Delayed Spellout∗†

Across the Board (ATB) movement is generally subject to the same islands that constrain regular wh-movement:1 (1) *Whoi did [a man who loves ti dance], and [a woman who hates ti go home]? In (1) a wh-element is extracted from subjects within both conjuncts. Not surprisingly, the result is ungrammatical. We observe a systematic exception to this pattern: if the gaps corresponding to the extracted element are rightmost within both conjuncts, extraction is possible even across islands: (2) Which booki did [John meet the man who wrote ti ], and [Mary meet the woman who published ti ]? There is another construction involving coordination, Right-Node Raising (RNR; Ross, 1967), that has long been known to be insensitive to conjunctinternal islands: (3) [John met the man who wrote ] and [Mary met the woman who published ] the recent bestseller about bats. ∗Draft. Comments welcome: {asaf,trifilij}@mit.edu †We thank Klaus Abels, Adam Albright, Karlos Arregi, Sigrid Beck, Johan van Benthem, Noam Chomsky, Michel DeGraff, Danny Fox, John Frampton, Irene Heim, Sabine Iatridou, Kyle Johnson, Ivona Kucerova, Idan Landau, Alec Marantz, Andrea Moro, Alan Munn, Maribel Romero, Tal Siloni, Raj Singh, Dominique Sportiche, Donca Steriade, Shoichi Takahashi, and the audiences of EC05, Ling-Lunch, Paris VIII, and InterPhases for valuable comments on this paper. Special thanks go to David Pesetsky. For expository convenience we mark conjuncts with brackets, and material that is shared between conjuncts with boldface. We indicate leftward movement with indexed traces, and rightward movement with underscores. None of this should be taken to have any theoretical import.