Attractor

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Definition

In the minimalism, an attractor is the uninterpretable (inherent) feature which attracts a matching feature (in order to be deleted).

Link

Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics

Reference

Chomsky, Noam A. 1998. Minimalist inquiries: the framework. (MIT working papers in linguistics) Cambridge, MA: MIT.

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