Across-the-Board extraction and clitic omission in Czech

Abstract

The wh-word what starts as an internal argument of both buy and read. Later on, it moves out of the VP coordination (i.e., undergoes ATB-extraction) into its surface position (Spec, CP). Among many puzzling issues that ATB extraction raises, the one that is the central topic of this paper is a question of why an element that undergoes ATB extraction needs to escape the coordination in which it originates. I.e., why, unlike (1), the example (2) (in which this book starts as an argument of buy and read and ends up inside the first conjunct) is ungrammatical