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A domain exhibits if it is transparent to some operations but opaque to others. The Williams Cycle (Williams 1974, 2003, 2013) makes a connection between opacity and the of embedded clauses: Syntactically smaller embedded clauses are transparent to more sub-extraction types than larger ones. This paper argues that various restrictions on cross-clausal movement in Hungarian can be accounted for in terms of the Williams Cycle. This novel support for the Williams Cycle is welcome since Hungarian is known for exhibiting many movement types landing at various heights (e.g. Horvath 1981; É. Kiss 1987; Puskás 2000; Surányi 2008; Egedi 2021). Bounding can be : a long movement type landing lower in the matrix left periphery is blocked by constituents occurring high in the embedded left periphery. But bounding can also be : Even if clause-types (e.g. subjunctive vs. tensed) are not distinguished in the left-periphery, assuming these are of different sizes, their opacity-differences can be traced back to size-differences.

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Williams Cycle effects in Hungarian
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Keyword(s): cross-clausal Ā-movement; Hungarian; selective opacity; Williams Cycle

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