Article drop in headlines and truncation of CP

The above judgments both accord with English speakers’ intu itions and are demonstrated in a corpus study of headlines by Mårdh 1980. The pattern has been argue d to be a linear restriction (no article-less DPs to the right of an article-ful one, Mårdh), or a c-comman d o e (no article-less DPs in scope of an article-ful one, Stowell 1991). However, the following att es ed headlines shed doubt on these hypotheses (assumingto-phrases are c-commanded by the direct object, Larson 1988) :