The literature on locative inversion in English currently disputes whether locative inversion differs from PP topicalization in permitting a quantifier in the fronted PP to bind a pronoun in the subject. In order to resolve this dispute, this paper runs two experiments on Amazon Mechanical Turk, one an acceptability judgment task and the other a forced-choice task. Both find that PP topicalization does not differ from locative inversion: both permit variable binding. Locative inversion also does not differ from a minimally different sentence with the overt expletive there. These findings remove an argument against the null expletive analysis of English locative inversion, and they also show that weak crossover is not uniformly triggered by A-bar movement.

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英语中的位置倒置、PP主题化和弱交叉

英语中关于位置倒装的文献目前争论位置倒装是否与 PP 主题化不同，因为它允许前置 PP 中的量词绑定主语中的代词。为了解决这一争议，本文在 Amazon Mechanical Turk 上进行了两个实验，一个是可接受性判断任务，另一个是强制选择任务。两者都发现 PP 局部化与位置倒置没有区别：两者都允许变量绑定。位置倒装也与带有明显咒语的最小不同句子没有区别那里。这些发现消除了反对英语位置倒置的无效咒骂分析的论点，并且它们还表明弱交叉并不是由 A-bar 运动统一触发的。