  Expectation-based Minimalist Grammars (e-MGs) are simplified versions of the
(Conflated) Minimalist Grammars, (C)MGs, formalized by Stabler (Stabler, 2011,
2013, 1997) and Phase-based Minimalist Grammars, PMGs (Chesi, 2005, 2007;
Stabler, 2011). The crucial simplification consists of driving structure
building only by relying on lexically encoded categorial top-down expectations.
The commitment on a top-down derivation (as in e-MGs and PMGs, as opposed to
(C)MGs, Chomsky, 1995; Stabler, 2011) allows us to define a core derivation
that should be the same in both parsing and generation (Momma & Phillips,
2018).
