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goal to the probe H. The detailed content of this restriction is known as the Minimal
Link Condition (MLC), which hinges on the notion of C-Command. I adopt the
following definitions of these terms:
(1.2) C-Command: A constituent α C-commands a constituent β in a syntactic
tree if every node of the tree that dominates α also dominates β, but neither
α dominates β nor β dominates α.
(1.3) Minimal Link Condition: An Agree relationship may be established between
head H and category β with matching features as long as there is no
intervening category γ such that H C-commands γ, γ C-commands β and
the same uninterpretable feature set of H also matches features of γ.
Note that under this definition of the MLC, even a matching intervening category
γ which has had its uninterpretable features checked already will still block a match
between H and β. This fact is known as the defective intervention constraint.
With respect to noun phrase structure, I assume that determiners head a functional
projection, the DP, as proposed in [Abney 1987]. Determiners normally bear
an uninterpretable Case feature which is valued in conjunction with an Agreement
relation between a probe and the Determiner. In Quechua, I assume that relative
clauses are CPs, which can be directly selected by a determiner D. In Chapter 3 I
present arguments in favor of this construction. In this regard I follow the work of
[Kayne 1994] and [Bianchi 1999, 2000] who have developed a theory of head-raising
in relative clauses and proposed this to be valid cross-linguistically. Although I follow
this aspect of the Antisymmetry framework quite closely, I do not adopt all of