Last resort
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One of the global economy conditions in the Minimalist Program. Last Resort states that there may be no transformations which are not driven by the need to check a feature.
Link
Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics
References
- Chomsky, N. 1995. The minimalist program, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts/London.
- Chomsky, N. 1993. A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory, MIT occasional papers in linguistics, 1-67. Reprinted in: Chomsky (1995).