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Minimalist program

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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Works by Noam Chomsky

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Minimalist program

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has application · 83
Minimalist program → Agree, Agreement, Amsterdam, An Economy Approach, Barbara, Berlin, Binarity, Blackwell, Boeckx, Bošković, Brody, Cambridge, Cedric, Chris, Citko, Collins, Critical Survey, Daniel, Danny, David
related to Works by Noam Chomsky · 61
Minimalist program → Adriana Belletti, Approaching UG From Below, Beyond, Beyond Explanatory Adequacy, Building, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Carlos Peregrín Otero, Chomsky, David Michaels, Derivation, Essays, Gruyter, Hans Martin Gärtner, Honor, Howard Lasnik, In Foundational Issues, In Hale, In Interfaces, In Ken Hale
related to Textbooks on minimalism · 59
Minimalist program → Adger, Aims, An Introduction, Andrew, Binding Theory, Blackwell, BlackwellRadford, Bošković, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge University PressLasnik, Cedric, Cedric Boeckx, Chomsky's Universal Grammar, Concepts, Cook, Core Syntax, Course, David, English
related to First language (L1) acquisition · 16
Minimalist program → As, Children, Emergence, English, Helen Goodluck, In, Japanese, L1, Merge, MP, Nina Kazanin, The, This, Two-word, Within, X-bar
related to Criticisms · 13
Minimalist program → Chomsky's, Chomskyan, David, In, Johnson, Lappin, Linguistic Theory Volume, Natural Language, Shalom Lappin, Some, The, They, This
related to Label · 10
Minimalist program → Adjunction, At, Chomsky's, In, SPEC, The, The Minimalist Program, While, Xmax, Y-X
related to Merge · 7
Minimalist program → For, In, Label, LI, Merge, SO, This
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Minimalist program → major line of inquiry that has been developing inside generative grammar since the early 1990s, outgrowth of the principles and parameters, radical departure from earlier Chomskyan linguistic practice that is not motivated by any new empirical discoveries

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Minimalist programis aradical departure from earlier Chomskyan linguistic practice that is not motivated by any new empirical discoveries0.90text
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sensorimotor systems' or a third condition not specific to language but still satisfying the conditions put forth by the interface.FunctionalismIn linguisticsinstance ofBPS satisfies the principles of UG using at minimum two interfaces0.80text
there are differing approaches taken to explore the basis of languageinstance ofBPS satisfies the principles of UG using at minimum two interfaces0.80text
meaninginstance ofIt has been argued that the formalist approach can be characterized by the belief that rules governing syntax can be analyzed independently from things0.80text

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