The shift from derivational rules to representational constraints that characterizes much contemporary work in phonology calls for a serious reevaluation of the notion of Underlying Representation (UR). The reason is that the ability of constraints to apply "in parallel" systematically obviates the need for a derivation. The purpose of this paper is to argue, consistently with my (1994) Princip...

Using the framework based on set-theory, I develop a formal definition of Agree as syntactic operation. begin by constructing version long-distance in which structurally higher element values feature lower element, and modify that to reflect various versions have been proposed “minimalist” literatur...