The Null Subject Parameter and Parametric Theory
The Null Subject Parameter and Parametric Theory
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空主体参数与参数理论
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1989
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K. Safir
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O. Jaeggli;K. Safir
现代语言学理论的核心挑战是建立一个普遍语法模型，一方面，它要足够普遍，以捕捉自然语言的普遍特征，另一方面，它要足够灵活，以解释实际观察到的语言之间的差异。此外，普遍语法（UG）被认为是人类先天禀赋的一部分，语言变异的问题变得至关重要的逻辑问题，语言学习者如何掌握语言变异。我们认为这个问题的一个概念是语言变异的参数理论，它旨在提供语言类型学的理论以及语言习得的逻辑问题的答案。事实上，可以公平地说，最近对英语以外的语言进行的理论上有根据的生成论研究的激增，是句法理论中参数作用概念化的直接结果。这本文集中的文章强调了这类研究的潜力，这些研究涉及一组相当明确的现象--以零主体现象为中心--在被称为政府约束理论的研究范式中（乔姆斯基，1981，1982）。
The central challenge for modern linguistic theory is to develop a model of Universal Grammar that is, on the one hand, general enough to capture the universal features of natural language, and on the other, flexible enough to account for the variation among languages that is in fact observed. Moreover, insofar as Universal Grammar (UG) is assumed to be part of the innate human endowment, the problem of linguistic variation becomes crucially related to the logical problem of how linguistic variation can be mastered by the language learner. One conceptualization of this problem that we believe is on the right track is the parametric theory of linguistic variation, which is designed to provide both a theory of linguistic typology as well as an answer to the logical problem of language acquisition. In fact it is probably fair to say that the recent proliferation of theoretically informed generativist studies of languages other than English is a direct result of the conceptualization of the role of parameters in syntactic theory. The articles in this collection exemplify the potential of this sort of research with respect to a rather well-defined set of phenomena — centering around the null subject phenomenon — within the paradigm of research known as Government-Binding theory (Chomsky (1981, 1982)).