Unbounded Successive-Cyclic Rightward DP-Movement ✩ Jason Overfelt Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 Abstract Larson (1989) noted that rightward movement of a DP past a clausal adjunct can necessitate a parasitic gap inside that clausal adjunct. This paper argues that right- ward DP-movement beyond certain adjunct clauses is movement beyond typical Heavy-NP Shift that is licensed by the need to bind the parasitic gap. I show that this correctly predicts a number of observations concerning the exceptional na- ture of the rightward movement involved. In particular, parasitic gaps are able to license rightward movement that is potentially unbounded and successive-cyclic. Keywords: rightward movement, parasitic gaps, non-feature-driven movement, unbounded movement, successive-cyclic movement 1. Introduction It is possible in English to displace rightward, DPs of a certain weight and complexity. The example of this in (1) was explored initially by Ross (1967) as Complex-NP Shift and is now commonly referred to as Heavy-NP Shift (HNPS). 1 ✩ This work owes an immense intellectual debt to the research that appears in Nissenbaum 2000. The present article has benefited greatly from discussion with Kyle Johnson, Rajesh Bhatt, and Brian Dillon as well as the many helpful comments and criticisms of the anonymous reviewers for Lingua. Additional helpful discussion has come from Klaus Abels, Hamida Demirdache, Tom Ernst, Jeremy Hartman, Gereon M¨ uller, Eric Potsdam, Tom Roeper, Peggy Speas, the participants of the 36th Penn Linguistics Colloquim, the Fall 2010 Syntax Seminar at UMass Amherst, and the Syntax Reading Group at UMass Amherst. Any errors or misrepresentations of the ideas of others are solely my responsibility. Parts of this research were funded by a dissertation improvement grant from the University of Massachusetts Amherst Graduate School. 1 Throughout this article I will adopt a convention employed in Postal 1994 that sets rightward shifted phrases off from the rest of the clause by means of a dash. Preprint submitted to Lingua April 28, 2015