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Scrambling was once defined as a stylistic operation that occurs in the phonological component, Since Saito and Hoji (1983) and Webelhuth (1995), however, it has been characterized as an instance of syntactic movement, It has further been argued in Deprez (1989), and Cho, J-H (1992), among others, that it is not exactly the same type of the syntactic operation, but a third type of movement which exhibits both the A and A-bar properties. What this means is that scrambling remains exceptional and unsolved even in the syntactic component. It is also problematic in the minimalist program which requires only what is conceptually necessary to be projected in the syntax, because there is no obvious motivation reported for scrambling to occur. In this paper, we maintain that all these current problems result from the shift of our concern of scrambling to the syntactic component from the phonological component, arguing that it can be best described as a PF operation: back to the best, triggered by [P] feature. The syntactic properties are then attributed to the fact that the item to be scrambled may undergo an OS type of movement to [Spec, υ] in the syntax. This will be discussed in relation largely to the INT interpretation assigned to peripheral positions.