Chapter 4.5 Interpretability and Its Consequences
The Minimalist Program
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Core Terminology
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The feature [plural]
Which features of 'airplanes' in 'we build airplanes' are considered optional?
An intrinsic feature
What type of feature is [assign accusative Case] within the lexical item 'build'?
deletion
Deletion makes a feature invisible at LF but leaves it accessible to the computational system.
erasure
Erasure is a stronger form of deletion that makes a feature entirely inaccessible to any further operation.
closeness
β is closer to HP than α if β c-commands α and β is not in the minimal domain of the head's chain.
checking configuration
A configuration exists if a feature is in the checking domain; a relation exists only if the features in that configuration also match.