Minimalist Program
A model of language structure that tries to eliminate redundant principles and constraints found in Government and Binding and X-Bar theory. It employs Bare Phrase Structure (BPS) and two major operations: copy and merge. These two operations amount to move. (Syntax)
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Mirror Principle
This principle, from Baker (1985), states that the morpheme order, starting from the root and moving outwards, reflects syntactic hierarchy. (syntax)
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