Principles and parameters

Principles and parameters is a framework within generative linguistics in which the syntax of a natural language is described in accordance with general principles (i.e. abstract rules or grammars) and specific parameters (i.e. markers, switches) that for particular languages are either turned on or off. For example, the position of heads in phrases is determined by a parameter. Whether a language is head-initial or head-final is regarded as a parameter which is either on or off for particular languages (i.e. English is head-initial, whereas Japanese is head-final). Principles and parameters was largely formulated by the linguists Noam Chomsky and Howard Lasnik. Many linguists have worked within this framework, and for a period of time it was considered the dominant form of mainstream gene

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enPrinciples and parameters is a framework within generative linguistics in which the syntax of a natural language is described in accordance with general principles (i.e. abstract rules or grammars) and specific parameters (i.e. markers, switches) that for particular languages are either turned on or off. For example, the position of heads in phrases is determined by a parameter. Whether a language is head-initial or head-final is regarded as a parameter which is either on or off for particular languages (i.e. English is head-initial, whereas Japanese is head-final). Principles and parameters was largely formulated by the linguists Noam Chomsky and Howard Lasnik. Many linguists have worked within this framework, and for a period of time it was considered the dominant form of mainstream gene
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enPrinciples and parameters is a framework within generative linguistics in which the syntax of a natural language is described in accordance with general principles (i.e. abstract rules or grammars) and specific parameters (i.e. markers, switches) that for particular languages are either turned on or off. For example, the position of heads in phrases is determined by a parameter. Whether a language is head-initial or head-final is regarded as a parameter which is either on or off for particular languages (i.e. English is head-initial, whereas Japanese is head-final). Principles and parameters was largely formulated by the linguists Noam Chomsky and Howard Lasnik. Many linguists have worked within this framework, and for a period of time it was considered the dominant form of mainstream generative linguistics. Principles and parameters as a grammar framework is also known as government and binding theory. That is, the two terms principles and parameters and government and binding refer to the same school in the generative tradition of phrase structure grammars (as opposed to dependency grammars). However, Chomsky considers the term misleading.
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Category:Generative syntax
Category:Grammar frameworks
Dependency grammar
Empty category principle
English language
Ergative case parameter
Extended Projection Principle
Generative linguistics
Government and binding
Grammar
Head (linguistics)
Head directionality
Head directionality parameter
Head-driven phrase structure grammar
Howard Lasnik
Japanese language
Lectures on Government and Binding
Lexical functional grammar
Minimalist Program
Natural language
Noam Chomsky
Nominal mapping parameter
Null-subject language
Periodic table
Phrase structure grammar
Plato's Problem
Polysynthetic language
Poverty of the stimulus
Pro-drop parameter
Projection principle
Projection Principle
Serial verb parameter
Structure preservation principle
Subjacency
Subject (grammar)
Subject placement parameter
Subject side parameter
Syntactic
Syntax
Tabula rasa
Theta criterion
Topic prominent parameter
Trace erasure principle
Turn constructional units
Universal grammar
Verb attraction parameter
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enhow is it misleading?
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Principia et parametra
Principi e parametri
Principios y parámetros
Principis i Paràmetres
Prinsipp- og parameterteorien
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Теория принципов и параметров
نظریهٔ اصول و پارامترها
原理とパラメータのアプローチ
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Category:Grammar frameworks
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