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[SQUEAKING] [RUSTLING] [CLICKING] NORVIN RICHARDS: Today, we are going to finish syntax, not in the sense that you will now know everything there is to know about syntax. People spend their lives studying syntax. In fact, that's what I'm doing. But you'll know enough for 24.900. And if you're interested in these things, there is 24.902, which is all about syntax-- introduction-- more of an introduction to syntax. So I was in the middle of talking, last time, about shortest move, and so I'm going to back up a little bit and we'll talk through the cases that I was talking about last time. Before I do that, though, I wanted to say, I got a really interesting question after class last time from someone who basically wanted to know whether it could be shown that the kinds of universals that I was showing you, observations like there's wh- movement to the left, but there isn't wh- movement to the right, or there's V2, but there isn't anti-V2-- Somebody wanted to know whether it could be sho