By Terje Lohndal, Juan Uriagereka
The first explicitly minimalist paper, Chomsky (1993), was concerned with unifying a certain set of data and theories that had become prominent in the 1980s. What we may think of as “early minimalism” took what was known from GB for granted and attempted to unify/eliminate relevant conditions. A good example of this approach is the suggestion that Case checking happens in functional agreement projections. 2 Consider the data in (1).(1) a. John likes him. b. She chased the cat. c. Mary proved [IP him wrong].