• In linguistics, the minimalist program is a major line of inquiry that has been developing inside generative grammar since the early 1990s, starting with...
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  • transformation was nevertheless not fully rejected. In Chomsky's 1990s Minimalist Program, transformations pertain to the lexicon and the move operation. This...
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  • grammars (Transformational Grammar, Government and Binding Theory, Minimalist Program), where the role of the functional categories is large. Many phrasal...
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    The Minimalists are American authors, podcasters, filmmakers, and public speakers Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus, who promote a minimalist lifestyle...
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  • and substantial critique of P&P is the Minimalist Program, Noam Chomsky's most recent proposal. This program of research utilizes conceptions of economy...
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  • intermediate and maximal projections as nonterminal nodes. Under the minimalist program, syntactic structures are formed by iterative applications of the...
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    theory, the generative grammar theory, the Chomsky hierarchy, and the minimalist program. Chomsky also played a pivotal role in the decline of linguistic behaviorism...
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  • head-driven phrase structure grammar (HPSG). Although recent work in the minimalist program has largely abandoned X-bar schemata in favor of bare phrase structure...
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  • radical revision of his earlier theories and was later revised in The Minimalist Program (1995) and several subsequent papers, the latest being Three Factors...
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    Chomsky's minimalist approach to syntactic representations. In 2016, Chomsky and Berwick defined the minimalist program under the Strong Minimalist Thesis...
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  • of the Chomskyan tradition (government and binding theory and the minimalist program) are primary examples of theories that apply this understanding of...
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  • tradition of TG developed mainly by Chomsky in the 1970s and 1980s) Minimalist program (MP) (a reworking of the theory out of the GB framework published...
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  • proof-theoretic, formalization of Chomskyan Minimalist program than is normally provided in the mainstream Minimalist literature. A variety of particular formalizations...
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    subsequent iterations known as Government and binding theory and the Minimalist program. Other present-day generative models include Optimality theory, Categorial...
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  • Merge is one of the basic operations in the Minimalist Program, a leading approach to generative syntax, when two syntactic objects are combined to form...
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  • 26 April 2021. Retrieved 5 January 2020. Chomsky, Noam (2015). The Minimalist Program (2nd ed.). MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-52734-7. Arbib, Michael A. (2015)...
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  • (linguistics), a basic syntactic operation in generative syntax in the Minimalist Program Merger (politics), the combination of two or more political or administrative...
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  • (1980s) Lexical functional grammar Categorial grammar (lambda calculus) Minimalist program-based grammar (1993) Stochastic grammar: probabilistic Operator grammar...
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  • grammars (e.g. most work in Government and binding theory and the Minimalist Program) take all branching to be binary, these head-medial a-trees may be...
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    Approximate representation of "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously". See Minimalist Program....
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  • many African languages Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia Minimalist program, a syntactic theory in linguistics Madhya Pradesh, a state in India...
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  • Brainfuck is an esoteric programming language created in 1993 by Swiss student Urban Müller. Designed to be extremely minimalistic, the language consists...
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    to cognate (more recently Chomsky has abandoned this view; cf. the Minimalist Program). Now, in terms of (say) chess, the players are given "rules" (i.e...
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  • Syntactic Structures. The Hague/Paris: Mouton. Chomsky, N. 1995. The Minimalist Program. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press. Falk, Y. 2001. Lexical-Functional...
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  • complements. Much work in Government and Binding Theory (GB), the Minimalist Program (MP), and Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) assumes all branching to...
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  • since the mid-1990s deep structure no longer features at all (see minimalist program). It is tempting to regard deep structures as representing meanings...
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  • in the study of syntax and grammar (Government and Binding Theory, Minimalist Program). Other theories of syntax and grammar (e.g. Head-Driven Phrase Structure...
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  • (such as transformational grammar, government and binding theory, minimalist program). Representational theories (such as head-driven phrase structure...
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  • rule instead of retrieving the irregular. In bare-phrase structure (minimalist program), theory-internal considerations define the specifier position of...
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  • human language (CHL), a concept proposed by Noam Chomsky under his Minimalist program Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg, the public-sector healthcare provider...
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