Minimalism, Modularity and Derivations

极简主义、模块化和衍生

• 批准号: 9817569
• 负责人: Norbert Hornstein
• 金额: $ 21万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-04-01 至 2002-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9817569&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Minimalism; Modularity; Derivations

9817569Hornstein & UriagerekaABSTRACTChomsky calls a 'Strong Minimalist Thesis' the conjecture that language is a perfect solution to interface conditions. The language faculty is thought to interact with other faculties of mind, including those responsible for articulation/perception and intentionality/conceptualization. Thatinteraction determines crucial properties of linguistic representations. In turn, the linguistic system is seen as computational, and optimal in the derivation of interface representations. The conjecture opens an obvious research program. To begin with, it forcesus to rethink many notions that sustained the Principles and Parametersframework. For instance, we are not allowed to arbitrarily postulate levelsof representations or give mere notational conventions a deep ontologicalstatus. More profoundly, if the linguistic system is computational, andoptimally so, derivational dynamics, crucially sensitive to complexity, should be responsible for a variety of effects which were previously taken to follow from static primitive conditions.Whether the strong minimalist thesis is tenable will depend on how well itexplains the wealth of data that previous models accounted for, and how naturally it fits within the general enterprise of studying the human mind. The present research tries to undertake these goals within the LinguisticsDepartment at the University of Maryland, as well as its Cognitive Scienceand Neuroscience program.

乔姆斯基把语言是界面条件的完美解决方案的猜想称为“强最简命题”。语言能力被认为与其他心智能力相互作用，包括那些负责发音/感知和意向性/概念化的能力。这种相互作用决定了语言表征的重要性质。反过来，语言系统被视为计算的，并在接口表示的推导最佳。 这个猜想开启了一个显而易见的研究计划。开始，它迫使我们重新思考支撑原则和参数框架的许多概念。例如，我们不被允许任意地假设表征的层次，或者仅仅给予符号约定以深刻的本体论地位。更深刻地说，如果语言系统是计算性的，并且最好是这样，那么对复杂性极其敏感的派生动态应该对以前被认为是从静态原始条件中得出的各种结果负责。强最低限度理论是否成立将取决于它在多大程度上解释了以前模型所解释的大量数据，以及它在研究人类思维的一般事业中是多么的自然。本研究试图在马里兰州大学语言学系及其认知科学和神经科学项目中实现这些目标。