Common use of Last Resort Clause in Contracts

Last Resort. Movement of φ to SpecX is contingent on feature checking between φ and X. Vehicle requirement on Merge In English, T bears not only [uv] (or [uvmod ], or [uvperf ], etc.), but also a [uN]-feature, which triggers Merge of an NP to SpecT. If no NP is taken from the lexicon (such as the expletive there (10-b)), then some NP from within the tree must undergo movement to satisfy this c-selection requirement (9)/(10-a).