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LAST RESORT AND V MOVEMENT 211in PF an overt item in its checking domain, with no mention of the matchingclause, or identity of formal features between the two items. In brief, phenomenarelating to Bulgarian li demonstrate that finite verb movement and long headmovement are two stylistic processes that may establish a checking domain,while escaping the matching clause of Last Resort. From this perspective,stylistic verb movement bears a partial resemblance to the rules of the computationalsystem That is, it may satisfy external needs by using the samesyntactic structure that the syntactic rules use to check formal features or satisfyinternal needs.Some PF movements, then, establish a checking domain like the rules ofthe syntax. However, unlike the rules of syntax, they escape the matchingrequirement. The Last Resort Principle for computational Move was given in (1)and is now repeated in (14). The PF movements that establish a checkingdomain but impose no matching then fall under a condition that resembles LastResort (14), as the formulation in (15) suggests.(14)(15)Last Resort Principle(in the computational system)Move F raises F to target K only if F enters intowith a sublabel of K.Checking Configuration Principle(in PF)Move raises a to target K for a to form a checkingsublabel of K.(16) a. Nevime, maji-li dnes medovinu. Czechwe. not. know have-3PL-Q today mead'We do not know whether they have mead today.'b. Mate -have-2SGliQpochyby ,doubts,zatelefonujtecallIf you have any doubts, call information.'c. *Pochyby-linaatmate, zatelefonujte na informate.a checking relationconfiguration with aWe just saw that Blg li imposes a PF checking configuration requirementsatisfied by Merge or lexical insertion and overt movements of the computationalsystem, including localization. If the PF requirement of // is not satisfiedvia computational means, then stylistic verb movement applies. Slavic languagesthat list li in their lexicon show more restricted uses for this item, Czechbeing an interesting case in point. The use of //' in this language suggests a diachronicreinterpretation of the PF condition for li that mentions a checking configurationor domain in (15) as the formal condition mentioning a checkingdomain and a matching requirement in (14), or Last Resort. Among others,Toman (1992) mentions that Czech li is not used in main clauses and is nowfound in literary style in both embedded questions and conditionals, as in (16).This item must trigger verb fronting as in (16a)-(16b)) but cannot be precededby a phrase that excludes localization, as in (16e).informate.information