It has to be said that, despite its being couched in terms of modern minimalist linguistic theory, and despite all the attention paid in the book to the full complement of modern models (symbolic, probabilistic, and connectionist), the proposed model has a decidedly "retro" feel to it.
it resurrects notions like the old N-V-N (agent-action-patient) canonical sentence templates (Fodor, Bever, and Garrett 1974), not to mention something closely resembling the transformational theory of grammar, in that the syntactic component is assumed to perform some direct form of reverse transformation operations.