Government and binding theory
Rección y ligamiento
- Date
- 1981 · confidence medium
- Place
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Credited to
- Noam Chomsky
- Field
- Communication
What was discovered
A syntactic theory within generative grammar that radically revised Noam Chomsky's earlier transformational models, centered on the principles of government and binding among sentence elements.
What it led to
- reshaped generative grammar into a principles-and-parameters model
- influenced a generation of comparative syntax studies across languages
- was revised by Chomsky himself in the 1995 Minimalist Program