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The goal of this paper is to examine the nature of extraction from subjects under Chomsky's (2005) probe-goal system. Chomsky (2005) introduces a new notion of parallel movement as a theoretical consequence of the feature-inheritance theory. That is, A-movement and A'-movement take place at the same stage during the course of the derivation. Huang's (1982) CED
contains the Subject Island Condition which has the effect of blocking the extraction out of subject. Chomsky (2005) presents a set of examples that apparently runs counter to the Subject Island Condition. Even these examples may be well accommodated by Chomsky's probe-goal system in concert with parallel movement. In the mean time, Rizzi (2004) proposes the Criterial Freezing as part of theory of syntactic freezing: a phase meeting a criterion is frozen in place. A
freezing effect makes all criterial positions opaque including [Spec, T] or [Spec, Subj] in Rizzi's terms. However, it is not true that all subjects are opaque to further operations as Subject Criterion predicts.