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Guiding Principles

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Category

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Function

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Structure (Drawing Trees)

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Traces

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Semantics Stuff

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See Colorless green ideas sleep furiously for the beauty of failed semantic checking

  • Semantic roles (theta roles?)

Other

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Connections

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I'm not sure exactly how this particular minimalist theory fits in with all the rest. I learned it from Dr. Alan Manning of BYU. I'm going to do my best to expound its principles, but I am NOT copying this material form Dr. Manning's text. I'm putting this down as I have it in my brain, unless I have to look up a specific idea. I'm also trying to verify that the principles exist elsewhere in academia before putting them down here, so I don't spoil anybody's hot new research or otherwise step on any toes.

References

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  • Fundamentals of English Syntax, Version 2.0, Andrew McIntyre.
  • Survival Syntax: An Introduction to Minimalism (pre-print trial edition), Alan D. Manning.

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