By Juan Uriagereka
Lappin, Levine and Johnson (LLJ) categorize my first reply to their piece as something ’which addresses our main objection to the MP by attempting to present a substantive defense of economy conditions in the theory of grammar’. This is why I chose the paradigm I did, among other possible ones amenable to broadly minimalistic considerations: it illustrated competing derivations at play, and procedures to choose among them. I purposely tried to study, also, a case where different possible orders come out as grammatical in different languages. Any analysis of these facts should be welcome.