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Part 1 The first day - the minimalist viewpoint: the mystery of languageacquisition; the mystery of language variation; knowledge of language; simplelearning methods; simple universal minds; economy; language and form. Part 2The second day -notation and reality: levels of representation; words (repeatthrice); systems of features; the inclusive nature of LF; the invariant partsof the computational system; representational alternatives; optimalitytheory. Part 3 The third day - phrases and linearity: (virtually) necessaryproperties; phrasal representations; precendence by hierarchy; someinteresting predictions; further intriguing predictions; empty categories arenot empty; further consequences of linearization. Part 4 The fourth day -cyclic transformations: movement in languages "without movement"; extendingstructures; noncyclic mergers?; adjunction; the array as a numeration;clockwork; some open questions to exercise with. Part 5 The fifth day -chains and their checking domain: the minimal link condition; well-formednessconditions versus ranking criteria; further conditions pertaining to chains;the overall shape of grammatical chains (and where it may come from);desperately seeking features; there!; heads and tails. Part 6 The sixth day -words and their internal domain: internal domains; much ado about wordformation; the subcase principle; departures from optimality; on the originsof uninterpretable features; evolution strikes back; an abrupt and unexpectedcoda. Part 7 And on the seventh day...