The syntax literature has overwhelmingly adopted the view that Condition C reconstruction takes place in wh-chains for R-expressions contained within arguments, but not within adjuncts of fronted wh-phrases. At the same time, this empirical picture has been questioned by various authors. We undertake a series of grammaticality surveys using Amazon Mechanical Turk in an attempt to clarify the empirical picture regarding reconstruction for Binding Condition C. We find absolutely no evidence of an argument–adjunct distinction in reconstruction for Binding Condition C. Neither arguments nor adjuncts reconstruct for Condition C. We suggest that those speakers who report such a contrast (linguists, primarily) are following a pragmatic bias, and not Condition C. While we do not find reconstruction of dependents of fronted NPs for Binding Condition C, we do find reconstruction of fronted PPs. That is, the NP complement of a fronted P must reconstruct for Binding Condition C. The literature also finds reconstruction of NP complements of verbs and adjectives. This means that fronted Ns are special in not requiring reconstruction of their arguments and adjuncts. We suggest that, syntactically, arguments of Ns are treated as adjuncts: semantic arguments simply adjoin in the same manner as true adjuncts. Syntactic adjuncts can be left out of lower copies in chains, something that we suggest follows from a left-to-right syntactic derivation plus an economy condition on copying.

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绑定条件 C 的重建中没有参数 - 辅助不对称

句法文献绝大多数都采用这样的观点，即条件 C 重构发生在包含在参数中的 R 表达式的 wh 链中，而不是在前置 wh 短语的附属语中。与此同时，这一经验图景受到了多位作者的质疑。我们使用 Amazon Mechanical Turk 进行了一系列语法调查，以试图阐明有关重构绑定条件 C 的经验图。我们绝对没有发现在重构绑定条件 C 中存在论点-辅助区别的证据。论点和辅助都没有重构为条件 C。我们建议那些报告这种对比的发言者（主要是语言学家）遵循务实的偏见，而不是条件 C。虽然我们没有发现为绑定条件 C 重建前沿 NPs 的依赖项，我们确实发现了前端 PP 的重建。也就是说，前置 P 的 NP 补语必须针对绑定条件 C 进行重构。文献还发现了动词和形容词的 NP 补语的重构。这意味着前置 N 的特殊之处在于不需要重构它们的论点和附属词。我们建议，从句法上讲，Ns 的论元被视为附属词：语义论证只是以与真正附属词相同的方式毗邻。句法附属词可以被排除在链中的较低副本之外，我们建议遵循从左到右的句法推导加上复制的经济条件。这意味着前置 N 的特殊之处在于不需要重构它们的论点和附属词。我们建议，从句法上讲，Ns 的论元被视为附属词：语义论证只是以与真正附属词相同的方式毗邻。句法附属词可以被排除在链中的较低副本之外，我们建议遵循从左到右的句法推导加上复制的经济条件。这意味着前置 N 的特殊之处在于不需要重构它们的论点和附属词。我们建议，从句法上讲，Ns 的论元被视为附属词：语义论证只是以与真正附属词相同的方式毗邻。句法附属词可以被排除在链中的较低副本之外，我们建议遵循从左到右的句法推导加上复制的经济条件。