We would like to thank Noam Chomsky, Yoshi Dobashi, Thomas Graf, Erich Groat, Kevin Guzzo, Greg Kobele, Terje Lohndal, Jens Michaelis, Yohei Oseki, Paul Postal, T. Daniel Seely, and Vera Zu for comments on the ideas found in this paper. We presented this work at the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (July 2009), the MIT Syntax‐Semantics Reading Group (September 2009), the Fifth International Conference on Formal Linguistics (Guangzhou, China, December 2011), and a seminar on syntax at New York University (Spring 2014).