Remarks on Minimalist Feature Theory and Move1
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I’d like to start this brief response to Asudeh and Toivonen’s review article ‘Symptomatic Imperfections’ (hence SI) with a word of thanks for the careful job they’ve done and generally collegiate manner in which they’ve done it. They make many good points about Adger (2003) (Core Syntax—hence CS) which will help a great deal in improving the book for any future edition. Because of this, I don’t want to dwell on any minor quibbles I have about their comments. Instead, I’d like to focus on some broader conclusions they draw about the theoretical devices used in CS and the perspective taken there. My remarks will address mainly SI’s concerns about the feature theory I outlined in CS, and the question of movement.
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