Subjacency

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Subjacency is a syntactic constraint in generative grammar that limits how far elements can move in a sentence, helping to explain why certain long-distance dependencies are ungrammatical.

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
binding (linguistics) ("Binding Principle C")
hasComponent
Empty Category Principle
relatedTo

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