Repairing Final-Over-Final Condition violations: Evidence from Basque verb clusters

This article discusses implications of Basque modal constructions for representational models of Final-Over-Final Condition (FOFC) effects.  We argue that FOFC-violating structures at an intermediate derivational level can be repaired by subsequent movement steps.  The analysis entails that FOFC-violating structures are buildable by the syntax, contra narrow syntactic approaches to FOFC, and that FOFC evaluation instead applies in the phonology after copy deletion.  Such a view of FOFC helps explain several recalcitrant word order restrictions on Basque modal constructions as well as variation in the effect of focus and negation on modal placement across Basque dialects.