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In linguistics, the minimalist program is a major line of inquiry that has been developing inside generative grammar since the early 1990s, starting with a 1993 paper by Noam Chomsky.
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| Minimalist program | is a | major line of inquiry that has been developing inside generative grammar since the early 1990s | 0.90 | text |
| Minimalist program | is a | outgrowth of the principles and parameters | 0.90 | text |
| Minimalist program | is a | radical departure from earlier Chomskyan linguistic practice that is not motivated by any new empirical discoveries | 0.90 | text |
| Merge | instance of | How does Agree interact with other operations | 0.80 | text |
| Label | instance of | How does Agree interact with other operations | 0.80 | text |
| X-bar theory | instance of | and have instead been replaced with multiple segments of UG | 0.80 | text |
| case theory | instance of | and have instead been replaced with multiple segments of UG | 0.80 | text |
| etc | instance of | and have instead been replaced with multiple segments of UG | 0.80 | text |
| 'conceptual-intentional | instance of | BPS satisfies the principles of UG using at minimum two interfaces | 0.80 | text |
| sensorimotor systems' or a third condition not specific to language but still satisfying the conditions put forth by the interface.FunctionalismIn linguistics | instance of | BPS satisfies the principles of UG using at minimum two interfaces | 0.80 | text |
| there are differing approaches taken to explore the basis of language | instance of | BPS satisfies the principles of UG using at minimum two interfaces | 0.80 | text |
| meaning | instance of | It has been argued that the formalist approach can be characterized by the belief that rules governing syntax can be analyzed independently from things | 0.80 | text |
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