A term used in government-binding theory to refer to a single, universal movement rule, which subsumes all specific movement rules; also called alpha movement.
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The chief function of the ECP is to place constraints on the movement of categories by the rule of alpha movement; it effectively allows a tree structure to " remember " what has happened at earlier stages of a derivation, and it can be seen as GB's version of the older derivational constraints.
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"It's an attempt to keep the message a traditional one, but change the packaging, to present Christianity in a way that's culturally relevant to people today, " said Alistair Hanna, 53, executive director of Alpha North America, which is based at St . Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in New York and is the base for the Alpha movement in the United States and Canada.