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You can’t derive *He thinks John VP (C violations), because moving the pronoun pied-pipes [John,he] to SpecTP, and then John must be extracted, and moved back, impossible because of the rightward movement to a non-c-commanding position ban. But that account of C predicts Which pictures that John took yesterday did he destroy today is bad (because it starts He destroy which pictures John took), but it’s fine. So?

You can’t derive John thinks he’s intelligent and John considers him intelligent in the same way. Plausibly, John needs to stop at an intermediate position on its way out of [John,he] to SpecTP: SpecCP provides such a stop in the former, but nothing equivalent in the latter. In (1) John praises him, no intermediate stop before SpecTP for John, and above it, it can no longer be the subject, so John ≠ him in (1)

Reading pronouns and their antecedents. What a paper. All pronoun-antecedent relations are established derivationally by leftward movement of the Spec of a doubling constituent [John,he]. This accounts for Control. It also reduces C (since *He(i) thinks John(i) is smart is ruled out simply because of the ban on movement of a non-Spec into a c-commanding position, violating the PIC).