This article reviews and attempts to evaluate the various proposals for a strong minimalist thesis that have been at the core of the minimalist program for linguistic theory since its inception almost seven decades ago. These proposals have involved legibility conditions for the interface between language and the cognitive systems that access it, the simplest computational operation Merge (its form and function), and principles of computational efficiency (including inclusiveness, no-tampering, cyclic computation, and the deletion of copies). This evaluation attempts to demonstrate that reliance on interface conditions encounters serious long-standing problems for the analysis of language. It also suggests that the precise formulation of Merge may, in fact, subsume the effects of those principles of efficient computation currently under investigation and might possibly render unnecessary proposals for additional structure building operations (e.g., Pair-Merge and FormSequence).

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强烈的极简主义论文

本文回顾并尝试评估关于极简主义论文的各种提议，这些提议自大约七年前成立以来一直是语言理论极简主义计划的核心。这些提议涉及语言和访问它的认知系统之间接口的易读性条件、最简单的计算操作合并（其形式和功能）以及计算效率原则（包括包容性、不可篡改、循环计算和删除份数）。该评估试图证明对界面条件的依赖会遇到严重的长期存在的语言分析问题。它还表明 Merge 的精确表述实际上可能