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Part 1 A minimalist view of language design: a general outlook; thegenerative procedure; bare phrase structure; functional categories;computational principles; economy principles. Part 2 Shortest derivation andtiming effects: elementary operations - a proposal; strict cyclicity - pastand present; deriving procrastinate; summary. Appendix - expletives andmultiple-subject constructions. Part 3 Legitimate steps and movementphenomena: deriving relativized minimality; deriving the superioritycondition; summary. Appendix - scrambling and unbound traces. Part 4 Chainformation and degrees of deviance: degrees of deviance - a problem; LFobjects and the chain formation algorithm; the chain formation condition - aproposal; further consequences; summary.