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That is, it fails to undergo phrasal wh-movementÐbut it does undergo wh-feature movement, if my hypothesis is correct. ACD evidence bearing on this point is hard to come by. In order to construct a fair test, we need to avoid D-linking, and we need at least four argument places to work with (in order to vary the status of the wh-phrase with ACD from wh1 -in-situ to wh2 -in-situ while holding other conditions constant). To the extent that such examples can be constructed, and to the extent that they do not pose insuperable burdens on linguistic memory, the facts appear to be as expected.
2 out of 4 wh-phrases move] d. **Koj napisa kakvo na kogo s kakvo? [1 out of 4 wh-phrases moves] Similar tests can be performed with biclausal structures. Once again there is a major acceptability break, between (41a±c) and (41d). Four wh-phrases: biclausal examples (41) a. Koj kogo na kogo kakvo ubedi da dade? ' b. Koj kogo na kogo ubedi da dade kakvo? c. Koj kogo ubedi na kogo da dade kakvo? d. **Koj ubedi kogo da dade kakvo na kogo? 23 As Rudin (1988) observes, the order of wh-phrases 22 Chapter 2 in a Bulgarian multiple question conforms to the generalization in (42), exempli®ed in (43)±(44).
In particular, May suggests that constraints on ACD show that covert phrasal movement is limited to special types of constituentsÐ constituents whose special syntactic or interpretive needs motivate such movement. He takes the contrast between (67a) and (67b) to show that quanti®ed expressions, but not DPs headed by proper names, undergo the covert phrasal movement that can resolve ACD. Quanti®ers versus proper names in ACD (67) a. Dulles suspected [everyone who Angleton did h]. b. *Dulles suspected [Philby, who Angleton did h].