Elementary operations and optimal derivations

Abstract

Part 1 A minimalist view of language design: a general outlook the generative procedure bare phrase structure functional categories computational principles economy principles. Part 2 Shortest derivation and timing effects: elementary operations - a proposal strict cyclicity - past and present deriving procrastinate summary. Appendix - expletives and multiple-subject constructions. Part 3 Legitimate steps and movement phenomena: deriving relativized minimality deriving the superiority condition summary. Appendix - scrambling and unbound traces. Part 4 Chain formation and degrees of deviance: degrees of deviance - a problem LF objects and the chain formation algorithm the chain formation condition - a proposal further consequences summary.

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