To the Editor

Against scrambling as an instance of Move-alpha

“…The argument can actually be turned against those theories that assume head-movement with XO-fonnation also in cases where there is no morphological XO-correlate, because purported XO's like German gekUflt haben woUen ('kissed have want') never move to an XO-position like C. Since NEG is semantically a sentential operator, NEG+NP will have to move in LF. See Bayer (1990) for argumentation in connection with focusing particles such as only, which extends to NEG, showing that it must in this case be a focusing particle.…”