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Kim, Jae-Min・Choi, Eun-Jeong. “The necessity of EF and status of EPP feature.” Studies on English Language & Literature. 38.2 (2012): 171-190. This paper attempts to find out the necessity of EF(Edge Feature) and status of EPP(Extended Projection Principle) feature within the MP(Minimalist Program). EPP has been the main issue for the researchers from the beginning of the MP. But, in recent years, researchers have become increasingly interested in studying EF. By coming to the fore of EF, these two notions are being used simultaneously but somewhat confusing, because many parts of the nature of EPP are overlapped with the nature of EF. In order to explain many syntactic problems with uniformity, the notions of these two main features of MP have to be separated and they have to find their own place properly. So, this paper suggests that EPP feature is only related with the generating sentence by obligatory movement, whereas EF feature is related to the semantic and pragmatic function of sentence derivation together with all other movements including obligatory and optional movements. (Chonbuk National University)