In this article, I propose a unified explanation for the argument–adjunct asymmetries that have been observed regarding two seemingly unrelated anti‐c‐command requirements: (i) condition C and (ii) the anti‐c‐command requirement on argument ellipsis, observed in Abe 2009 for null arguments in Japanese. I argue that these asymmetries are best explained by the mechanism of late merge of adjuncts proposed by Lebeaux (1988) with a derivational definition of c‐command à la Epstein (1999). Furthermore, I argue that the timing of late merge of adjuncts is regulated by phase theory in the way that adjuncts may be merged no later than completion of relevant operations at the phase domains they belong to.

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反C命令要求的后期合并和阶段

在本文中，我对关于两个看似无关的反c指令要求所观察到的参量-辅助不对称提出了统一的解释：（i）条件C和（ii）关于论点省略号的反c指令要求，在2009年安倍晋三中观察到日语中的空参数。我认为这些不对称性最好由Lebeaux（1988）提出的辅助词的后期合并机制和c- commandàla Epstein（1999）的派生定义来最好地解释。此外，我认为，后期相合并的时机受相位理论的控制，其方式是，合并不得迟于它们所属的相域中相关操作的完成。