ABSTRACT: A-scrambling exists!

The evidence presented in this paper suggests that local scrambling can be
treated as A-movement, despite some apparent exceptions to the possibility
of creating new binding relations. These exceptions actually fall under a
general principle concerning A-movement, including movement to the subject
position for Case/EPP.  According to this principle (Lethal Ambiguity),
binding cannot obtain between two DPs occupying specifiers of the same
head.  Since A-scrambling one DP past another always involves the two DPs
occupying specifiers of the same head at some stage in the derivation,
Lethal Ambiguity restricts the binding possibilities that arise in
A-scrambling, or in A-movement of any kind.

syntax, word order, scrambling, A-movement, binding, Lethal Ambiguity