The notion of 'phase' has its motivation in economy principle, which has been proved to be appealing. But justifying the derivation by phase needs some consideration. Especially the interpretation/evaluation of phase and the assigned EPP-feature make problems and the solutions are required. To solve the problem of the phasal interpretation/evaluation, we make the following proposal: the activated are interpreted/evaluated at each phase. Further, we propose that the movement which do not accompany the agree operation is possible, which solve the problem of the assigned EPP-feature. These two proposals can be integrated into the one principle: maximize the effects of a syntactic operation. This principle, the generalized maximization principle, is the general version of Chomsky(2001)'s principle.

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