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Deriving the Functional Hierarchy Gillian Ramchand and Peter Svenonius CASTL, University of Tromsø GLOW 36, Lund University April 4, 2013 1 Introduction 1.1 The problem (1) The Minimalist Program strives to go beyond “explanatory ade- quacy” (an explanation of how language can be learned) to develop a plausible account for how human linguistic ability could have evolved (Chomsky 2005 inter alia).