Abstract
To sum up, I have suggested that Kayne's ECP can be extended to deal with the lack of object-subject asymmetries in the extraction pattern of Chamorro, a VSO language. A crucial feature of the account is the idea that the ECP notion of government is defined in terms of constituency at S-structure. In Chamorro, however, the government relevant for Case and Binding cannot be so defined. This suggests that the language employs two distinct notions of government that happen to fall together in configurational languages. Traces in Chamorro must not only satisfy the ECP but must also be governed in the Case-Binding sense; in this respect they resemble their analogues in configurational languages, which must be both governed and properly governed. Finally, I have asserted that these results can be extended to VSO languages in general.
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