Chapter 4.10 Functional Categories and Formal Features
The Minimalist Program
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T, C, D, and Agr
Which four functional categories are primarily considered in the minimalist framework discussed in the text?
Expletive, subject, and object
In an Icelandic Transitive Expletive Construction (TEC), what three pre-VP positions are required for nominal expressions?
Economy of derivations
​What economy principle prevents a derivation where an object raises to [Spec,T] to satisfy the EPP while the subject raises covertly?
The inner Specifier position
If "closer than" is restricted to pure c-command, where must an object raise to check a strong feature on v?
The −Interpretable categorial feature [D]
What is the content of a pure expletive at the LF level?
irreducible minimum
The optional selection of the property [strength of F] from the lexicon for the numeration.