The Configurational Matrix . We will refer to these dependencies as external grammatical dependencies, because they all involve a relation between a phrase and the context in which it appears. This will set them apart from internal grammatical dependencies, such as the marking of internal theta roles and subcategorization, which involve relations between a head and dependents within its projection .
External dependencies turn out to have several properties in common.
No one does anyone a favour in this town. Anyone does no one a favour in this town. Finally, grammatical dependencies exhibit locality effects. We have seen this for binding of anaphors and to some extent for movement. In conclusion, external grammatical share the following properties.