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Abstract

Since Chomsky's A-over-A principle, many constraints or conditions have been proposed in Transformational Generative Grammar. In consequence of the abandonment of obligatoriness and ordering in transformational component, more and more precise constraints come to be required to rule out undesirable outputs. In Chomsky's "On Binding" as the revision of his late paper "Filters and Control, " he suggests various innovations (e.g., N.I.C., Opacity Condition, Case Assignment, Theory of Control) to aim at explanatory adequacy. We will investigate these matters (especially Case Assignment and Theory of Control) and then we will posit some alternative if possible.