This paper presents an account of parasitic gaps in Synchronous TAG, making use of the more flexible semantic derivations that derive from the proposal in Frank and Storoshenko (2012) to add separate scope components to all predicates. We model parasitic gaps as deriving from a TAG analog of sidewards movement (Nunes, 2004), where the licensing wh-phrase combines first with the domain containing the parasitic gap, which then combines with the main clause domain via tree-local multi-component combination. Such tree-local derivations are possible only because of the manipulations of scope available in the semantics. The phenomenon explored here not only shows the continued role of the syntax in constraining syntactic dependencies, but also demonstrates the potential for derivations which are syntactically well-formed, but are rendered impossible due to the improper binding of the parasitic gap variable.
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