Max(A)

In checking theory of minimalism, Max(A) is the least full-category maximal projection dominating A.

Example

In (i), Max(X) = Max(H) = [XP1, XP2], i.e. the two-segment category XP.

(i) XP1

      /\
     /  \
    UP  XP2
       /\
      /  \
    ZP1    X'
   /\      /\
  /  \    /  \
 WP  ZP2  X1  YP
         /\
        /  \
       H   X2

Link

Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics

Reference

• Chomsky, Noam A. 1993. A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory. MIT occasional papers in linguistics, 1-67.