a contrastive study of english, persian and turkish: cross over effects at lf

lf as the grammatical locus of semantic interpretation in minimalism implies that lf is the only level at which any structural condition can be checked. accordingly, cross over effects provides some evidence for the existence of lf. to provide further evidence for the universality of cross over effects at lf, a comparative research between persian-english, turkish-english and persian-turkish has been conducted. the subjects include two groups of persian and turkish speakers. each group consists of 30 university students. for the purpose of the study, english examples are taken from original books in which the cross over effects have been checked by the native speakers. then they are translated into persian and turkish to be checked by persian and turkish native speakers. the analysis of the data indicates that there is a considerable consistency among three languages with regard to cross over effects at lf.