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The Minimalist Program
Noam Chomsky

The Minimalist Program consists of four recent essays that attempt to
situate linguistic theory in the broader cognitive sciences. In these
essays the minimalist approach to linguistic theory is formulated and
progressively developed. Building on the theory of principles and
parameters and, in particular, on principles of economy of derivation and
representation, the minimalist framework takes Universal Grammar as
providing a unique computational system, with derivations driven by
morphological properties, to which the syntactic variation of languages is
also restricted.
  Within this theoretical framework, linguistic expressions are generated
by optimally efficient derivations that must satisfy the conditions that
hold on interface levels, the only levels of linguistic representation.
The interface levels provide instructions to two types of performance
systems, articulatory-perceptual and conceptual-intentional. All syntactic
conditions, then, express properties of these interface levels, reflecting
the interpretive requirements of language and keeping to very restricted
conceptual resources.
  Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The Essays:  Principles and Parameters Theory. Some Notes on Economy of
Derivation and Representation. A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory.
Categories and Transformations in a Minimalist Framework.

Current Studies in Linguistics series
September � 6 x 9 � 420 pp. 
0-262-53128-3 $22.50 paper Original in Paperback
0-262-03229-5 $40.00 cloth
Published by The MIT Press.


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