Last resort

One of the global economy conditions in the Minimalist Program. Last Resort states that there may be no transformations which are not driven by the need to check a feature.

Link

Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics

References

• Chomsky, N. 1995. The minimalist program, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts/London.
• Chomsky, N. 1993. A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory, MIT occasional papers in linguistics, 1-67. Reprinted in: Chomsky (1995).