This document provides an overview of the Minimalist Program (MP) proposed by Chomsky in 1993. It discusses the redundant and necessary levels of representation, including Logical Form and Phonetic Form. Principles like economy of derivation and economy of representation are explained. The document also covers topics like phrase structure, movements, feature checking, and the Full Interpretation Principle in MP. The conclusion states that MP aims to minimize theoretical concepts in syntax to achieve universality of grammar.

2. Introduction
0 MP as put forward by Chomsky in 1993
0 Aimed at minimizing of theoretical apparatus to studt
language.
0 The redundant levels of representation were
abandoned whereas the two necessary ones were
maintained.

3. Redundant levels
0 Deep-Structure: level at which lexical insertions came
into play and lexical items were represented. It dealt
more with the sematic component of the sentence.
0 Surface-Structure: the representation of word order in
accordance with how it is being pronounced. It dealt
with the phonetic component of sentence.

4. Necessary Levels
0 Logical form (LF): the abstract representation of
meaning.
0 Phonetic form (PF): the abstract representation of
sounds.

5. Economy driven Principles
0 Economy of derivation: a principle according to which
movements will only occur for feature checking i.e. to
match with interpretable and uninterpretable
features.
0 Economy of representation: a principle stating that
grammatical structure must exist for a purpose i.e.
complex structure should be avoided and the ones
necessary should be used only.

6. Phrase Structure in MP
0 Functional Domain: The four accepted projections in
functional domain are CP, AgrSP, TP and AgrOP.
These projections are occupied by morphological
features.
0 Lexical Domain: In which locus insertion of lexical
items such as verbs and its arguments takes place. A
lexeme is inserted in its fully inflected form.

7. Movements in MP
0 A given element or constituent needs to follow the same
path irrespective of the language.
0 Constituents move from lexical domain to functional
domain.
0 Movement takes place for the sake of feature checking.
0 The movement takes place in left-upward direction.

8. Types of Movements
0 Overt Movement: These take place before spell-out
position and influence sentence how we perceive it.
0 Covert Movement: These movements take place after
spell-out positions.

9. Feature Checking
0 The features of the lexical constituents are compared
with those of the landing site in functional domain.
0 This mapping is called feature checking.
0 Once the features are checked, they are deleted.
0 Once all formal features of lexical constituents are
checked, a sentence is said to be in its LF-representation.

10. Full Interpretation Principle
0 Deletion of features and difference between overt and
covert movements is related to Full Interpretation
Principle.
0 It requires that every element of PF and LF must
entirely consist of legitimate objects.

11. Conclusion
Minimalist program is thus not a theory but a set of
ideas for formulation of a theoretical framework for
syntax that includes all the necessary concepts and
eliminates the redundant concepts in order to achieve
universality of grammar.