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checking configuration

SYNTAX: Notion in checking theory. Informally, feature F1 located on a head X is in a checking configuration with feature F2 located on head Y, if Y is adjoined to X, or YP is in a specifier of X.
Formally, F1 is in a checking configuration with F2 if F2 is in the checking domain of F1.
LIT. Chomsky, N. (1995)
Chomsky, N. (1993)