Right Adjunction in the Right Peripheries

0. Introduction The primary goal of this paper is to investigate some instances of rightward scrambling in Turkish, and propose an analysis for them adopting a theory in which Θ-roles are considered to be features. More explicitly, it will be suggested that instances of rightward scrambling should be interpreted as base-generation/pure merge, where the timing of merger is argued to be determinable by the strength of the Θ-feature of the selected category. The empirical domain of this study covers rightward scrambling in the context of nominalized embedded clauses in Turkish. Two puzzling observations will be at the center of the investigation: (i) The grammaticality of local rightward scrambling within a nominalized complement clause depends on whether the nominalized clause itself is rightward scrambled or in-situ, and (ii) while long distance rightward scrambling of an XP out of an in-situ embedded clause is grammatical, local rightward scrambling of an XP within an in-situ embedded clause is ungrammatical. In addition to the assumptions noted above, two more assumptions of the current analysis will be that (i) right-adjunction is an option available in the grammar, and (ii) lowering at LF is possible in line with Boskovic and Takahashi (1998). This paper is organized as follows: Section 1 lays out the facts examined in the paper. Section 2 outlines the proposal, and Section 3 demonstrates how it fares with respect to the relevant facts. Section 4 considers a number of predictions of the proposal, and Section 5 concludes the paper by presenting a summary.