Trace

A trace marks the location in a sentence or syntactic tree from which a lexical item has been moved.

Examples

From the original structure, wh-movement creates a trace where John used to be.

John will eat apples.

[John_i [will eat apples]]

Who will eat apples?

[Who_i [t_i will eat apples]]

	        CP
	       /|
	   Whoi |
	       IP
               /|
	     NP	I'
 	     |	|\
	     |	I VP
	     ti	|  |
		|  V'
	      will |\
		   V \
		   |  NP
                   eat |
		       |

apples

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