文档介绍：SLA --- AN Introductory Course Prof. Wen Weiping College of Foreign Languages
Lecture 4 Universal Grammar
1. A quick review of TG grammar
2. Two approaches to linguistic universals
3. UG ( principles and parameters )
4. The rationali for Universal Grammar
( the poverty of the stimulus argument )
5. Linguistic universals and L1 acquisition
6. Access to UG in SLA
1. A quick review of TG grammar
4 stages of TG theory Syntax-structure theory Standard theory/Extended-standard theory Government/binding theory The minimalist theory
1st stage
Features:
1). Emphasis on generative ability of language
2). Introduction of transformational rules
3). Grammatical description regardless of meaning
3 sets of rules: --- phrase structure rules --- transformational rules --- phonological rules
TG grammar --- rules internalist view linguistic creativity Ideally a grammatical description of a language prise rules that will generate possible, grammatically acceptable, sentences.
2nd stage
standard theory extended standard theory revised extended standard theory remarkable changes: 1) semantics ---- focus 2) the distinction of deep structure & surface structure 3) the distribution of syntactic elements was changed
tendency: the reduction of transformational components/transformational rules a single rule --- move
3rd stage
Government and binding theory research interest: universal grammar GB --- ponents of universal core grammar rule-orientation ----- principle-orientation
GB --- network of subtheories binding theory bounding theory case theory -theory x-bar theory adjacency parameter pro-drop parameter