Raising in Uyghur

In this paper, I discuss the properties of raising constructions in Uyghur, a Turkic language spoken in Central Asia. Uyghur exhibits Raising of genitive subjects, which I argue are structurally case-marked. This makes untenable the Activity Condition proposed by Chomsky (1998, 2001). Genitive case assignment to subjects of embedded CPs in Uyghur is also in conflict with the strong version of the Phase Impenetrability Condition proposed by Chomsky (1998). On the basis of Uyghur data, I thus argue in favor of the weaker version of the Phase Impenetrability Condition proposed by Chomsky (2001). Chomsky’s (2001) Phase Impenetrability Condition prohibits raising out of CPs, but does not block genitive case assignment.