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<p>of <a href="page.php?w=Grammatical_case">case</a>. Government is defined as follows:</p>

<p>A <b>governs</b> B if and only if<br/>
* A is a <b>governor</b> and<br/>
* A <b><a href="page.php?w=m-command">m-command</a>s</b> B and<br/>
* no <b>barrier</b> intervenes between A and B.</p>

<p><b>Governors</b> are heads of the <a href="page.php?w=lexical_category">lexical categories</a> (V, N, A, P) and <a href="page.php?w=tensed_I">tensed I</a> (T). A <a href="page.php?w=m-command">m-command</a>s B if A does not <a href="page.php?w=dominance_%28linguistics%29">dominate</a></p><p>
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