Abstract
This paper explores a way of reducing Rizzi's Relativized Minimality to Chomsky's Minimality Condition. It is argued that, given the X′ Convention and the Minimality Condition, it is possible to produce a unified approach towards the three domains which supply the empirical foundation for the Relativized Minimality. Furthermore, to account for the possibility of the extraction of an element from the domain of a head governor, it is proposed that there are two kinds of minimality barrier: a weak minimality barrier which blocks a chain of antecedent-government relations formed by wh-movement, and a strong minimality barrier which blocks both a chain of antecedent-government relations formed by wh-movement and one formed by NP movement.
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