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Domain
M. Rita Manzini starts her work on Locality by defining the concepts of minimal domain and domain as follow

Locality
Manzini's observation that many theories, such as Rizzi's (1990) Reletavized Minimality, amount to economy constraints, forcing movement from X to the head closest to it, drives her to define adjacency between minimal domains

Manzini can then define Locality as requiring two elements in a dependency to be minimally distant in the tree, with minimal distance now defined as adjascency of minimal domains.

Manzini's explanation of Locality accounts for instances of head movement and wh-islands accounting for the results of Rizzi's Reletavized Minimality, and Manzini's earlier theory on Locality.

Subject and Adjunct islands
In order to explain adjunct and subject islands Manzini notes that we must consider ordering in conjunction with Locality. However she also notes that ordering is governed by the notion of c-command which is defined for single points in a tree while her definition of Locality is defined for sets of elements in a tree. As a result she redefines ordering to maintain consistency with her definition of Locality.

First she defines superiority as and analogue to c-command for minimal domains.

By embedding this definition into a new definition of dependency Manzini is able to account for ordering of minimal domains.

This allows Manzini to account for subject and adjunct islands for head and phrasal dependencies without allowing for movement to adjoined positions.