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the analysis I have outlined here. However, the modifier could not be construed as
reconstructing to its base position. Clearly, if the role of the base position of the
modifier is to provide the position at which the moved element is to be interpreted
then there is no expected interpretation difference between the continuous and discontinuous
versions of the noun phrase. (The possibility that there is an island effect
associated with specific noun phrases here has already been discussed and rejected.)
However, it could be that reconstruction takes place to the [Spec,KP] escape hatch
as proposed in Chapter 5, which would give us the exact LF configuration I have
posited. The question remains, however, of why reconstruction would only be to
this intermediary position.
One possible resolution of this issue is that (weak) quantifiers and adjectives can
be generated in a position above DP, from which they are extracted and to which
they are reconstructed at LF. In fact, from the discussion in Chapter 5, we have a
position of just this sort: the [Spec,KP] position was proposed to be the position from
which possessors could be extracted and in which the Case marking from the matrix
clause environment could be copied onto a DP-internal element. If modifiers can in
fact merge initially with KP instead of appearing in their DP-internal position, we
have an explanation both for the Case-marking on the modifier and the obligatory
semantic association of the modifier with the noun phrase it dominates. If adjectives
and quantifiers do not have their own Case feature, then their Case-markers would
reflect the Case-copying property of the [Spec,KP] position and not a feature match
with K. In this way these modifiers would differ from possessors, which actually
have their Case checked by K (cf. Section 5.4.3). Thus we have to assume that K
does not always come with this Case feature.
A perplexing question that still needs to be dealt with is how to reconcile the
view of a strong quantifier as an element that may be extracted at will from its noun