"However, this assumption is not correct, since the theory of syntactic features developed earlier raises serious doubts about the extended c-command discussed in connection with (34). Presumably, the appearance of parasitic gaps in domains relatively inaccessible to ordinary extraction does not affect the structure of an abstract underlying order. If the position of the trace in (99c) were only relatively inaccessible to movement, the earlier discussion of deviance cannot be arbitrary in nondistinctness in the sense of distinctive feature theory. Analogously, the natural general principle that will subsume this case is, apparently, determined by problems of phonemic and morphological analysis. Let us continue to suppose that the speaker-hearer's linguistic intuition may remedy and, at the same time, eliminate the strong generative capacity of the theory." --Chomskybot