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This article has argued in favor of eliminating the control module from the grammar. In place of subtheories specially
designed to account for the distribution and interpretation of PRO, the present proposal has relied on movement to account for OC and on pro to account for NOC. The price paid for thus eliminating the PRO module has been to remove the last residues of D-Structure from the grammar and to dispense with the assumption that expression(or chains they head) are restricted to a single θ-role. Both departures from orthodoxy are required to permit movement from one 8-position to another-the minimum required if OC is to be analyzed as movement. Technically, this has also required treating θ-roles as features on predicates and θ-role assignment as a species of feature checking.