Crash

In generative syntax, crash is a notion in the Minimalist Program. A derivation crashes if it does not converge.

Link

Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics

References

• Chomsky, Noam A. 1993. A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory. MIT occasional papers in linguistics, 1-67.
• Chomsky, Noam A. 1995. The Minimalist Program. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.