The Article is devoted to one of the methods of the conversion of fixed expressions (proverbs, sayings, aphorisms and such cliché’ sentences) in the modern Russian language – to reduce their component composition (implizieren, implications). Question quantitative changes in the steady phrases are considered in the aspect of the General problem of phraseological variability. T...

I argue that overt movement cannot always be triggered by a need to create specifier for the head bearing Probe, as commonly assumed. In Tagalog, claim, best description of behavior wh-phrases is they must become linearly adjacent C; show Tagalog in fact occupy several different structural positions which are consistent with this linear requirement.