Abstract 1. Introduction 2. Preliminaries 2.1. Overt RO in English 2.2. Short Verb Movement 2.3. Adjuncts as Adjoined Elements to X' 3. Shifted Object Postion below the Θ-Position of the Subject 3.1. From Split VPs to a Larsonian Shell 3.2. Deriving the Adjacency Effect 3.3. Argument for the Shifted Object below the Θ-Position of the Subject 4. Summary and Conclusion References