2. Introduction
0 MP as put forward by Chomsky in 1993
0 Aimed at minimizing of theoretical apparatus to studt
language.
0 The redundant levels of representation were
abandoned whereas the two necessary ones were
maintained.
3. Redundant levels
0 Deep-Structure: level at which lexical insertions came
into play and lexical items were represented. It dealt
more with the sematic component of the sentence.
0 Surface-Structure: the representation of word order in
accordance with how it is being pronounced. It dealt
with the phonetic component of sentence.
4. Necessary Levels
0 Logical form (LF): the abstract representation of
meaning.
0 Phonetic form (PF): the abstract representation of
sounds.
5. Economy driven Principles
0 Economy of derivation: a principle according to which
movements will only occur for feature checking i.e. to
match with interpretable and uninterpretable
features.
0 Economy of representation: a principle stating that
grammatical structure must exist for a purpose i.e.
complex structure should be avoided and the ones
necessary should be used only.
6. Phrase Structure in MP
0 Functional Domain: The four accepted projections in
functional domain are CP, AgrSP, TP and AgrOP.
These projections are occupied by morphological
features.
0 Lexical Domain: In which locus insertion of lexical
items such as verbs and its arguments takes place. A
lexeme is inserted in its fully inflected form.
7. Movements in MP
0 A given element or constituent needs to follow the same
path irrespective of the language.
0 Constituents move from lexical domain to functional
domain.
0 Movement takes place for the sake of feature checking.
0 The movement takes place in left-upward direction.
8. Types of Movements
0 Overt Movement: These take place before spell-out
position and influence sentence how we perceive it.
0 Covert Movement: These movements take place after
spell-out positions.
9. Feature Checking
0 The features of the lexical constituents are compared
with those of the landing site in functional domain.
0 This mapping is called feature checking.
0 Once the features are checked, they are deleted.
0 Once all formal features of lexical constituents are
checked, a sentence is said to be in its LF-representation.
10. Full Interpretation Principle
0 Deletion of features and difference between overt and
covert movements is related to Full Interpretation
Principle.
0 It requires that every element of PF and LF must
entirely consist of legitimate objects.
11. Conclusion
Minimalist program is thus not a theory but a set of
ideas for formulation of a theoretical framework for
syntax that includes all the necessary concepts and
eliminates the redundant concepts in order to achieve
universality of grammar.
