Several recent proposals hold that CP complements appear rightmost in many languages as the result of a two‐step leftward‐movement process: first the CP moves leftward, then a remnant phrase carries all other material to the left of that moved position. I show here that the arguments that have been given in favor of this approach do not go through. In contrast, a rightward‐movement analysis explains all the facts in a much simpler and less ad hoc derivation. These facts include (i) a left‐right asymmetry in syntactic category; (ii) binding facts; (iii) preposition stranding; and (iv) extraction. Importantly, binding must depend on precede‐and‐command rather than c‐command (Bruening 2014) and there is never reconstruction for Binding Condition C. Regarding preposition stranding, the results of a large‐scale survey reveal that there is actually significant speaker variability in whether prepositions can be stranded when CPs move to the right. I spell out a nongrammatical account of this variability within the rightward‐movement analysis. With many of these phenomena, rightward movement of CPs does not pattern with remnant‐VP fronting, as it should in the leftward‐movement analysis.

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CP向右移动，而不向左移动

最近的一些提议认为，由于两步向左移动过程，CP补语在许多语言中出现在最右边：首先，CP向左移动，然后一个剩余短语将所有其他材料带到该移动位置的左侧。我在这里表明，支持这种方法的论点不会通过。相比之下，向右运动分析则以更简单，更少即席推导的方式解释了所有事实。这些事实包括：（i）句法范畴中的左右不对称；（ii）具有约束力的事实；（iii）介词搁浅；（iv）提取。重要的是，绑定必须取决于先行命令而不是c命令（2014年6月），并且从不对绑定条件C进行重建。关于介词链，大规模调查的结果表明，当CP向右移动时，实际上是否存在可以串扰介词的说话人差异很大。我在向右运动分析中清楚地说明了这种变异性。对于这些现象中的许多，CP的向右移动并不像残余VP那样，这在向左移动分析中应该如此。