Syntax Formalist Approach(MP) 楚军外国语学院
Formalist Approach (MP) 楚军 外国语学院 Syntax
MP-model Introduction Why Minimalism? The overall aim of MP continues the tradition of making statements about human languages that are as simple and general as possible. From the early 1960s,the central objective of TG grammar was to abstract general principles from the complex rule systems devised for particular languages, leaving rules that are simple,constrained in their operation by the UG principles. The minimalist framework continues this drive for simplification
MP-model : Introduction Why Minimalism? The overall aim of MP continues the tradition of making statements about human languages that are as simple and general as possible. From the early 1960s, the central objective of TG grammar was to abstract general principles from the complex rule systems devised for particular languages, leaving rules that are simple, constrained in their operation by the UG principles. The minimalist framework continues this drive for simplification
MP-model Introduction The defining characteristic of MP model: --if the linguistic system needs to be as economical as possible,in terms of both how it represents and generates structures,clearly the smallest possible set of devices to account for language phenomena should be used
MP-model : Introduction The defining characteristic of MP model: --if the linguistic system needs to be as economical as possible, in terms of both how it represents and generates structures, clearly the smallest possible set of devices to account for language phenomena should be used
MP-model Introduction As for the famous upside-down T-model (p.96 (③)，MP questions whether all the levels of representation are really necessary. ● Since language is a mapping between sound and meaning,the only absolutely necessary representations are at the interfaces of the meaning and sound components of the linguistic system where language connects,on the one hand to the physical world of sounds,on the other to the mental world of cognition
MP-model : Introduction • As for the famous upside-down T-model (p.96 (3)), MP questions whether all the levels of representation are really necessary. • Since language is a mapping between sound and meaning, the only absolutely necessary representations are at the interfaces of the meaning and sound components of the linguistic system where language connects, on the one hand to the physical world of sounds, on the other to the mental world of cognition
MP-model Introduction In MP model,only LF and PF are really necessary and there must be a lexicon and a computational system'which forms LF and PF representations from lexical information.Thus, D-and S-structure,together with 'government' and X-bar are done away with
MP-model : Introduction • In MP model, only LF and PF are really necessary and there must be a lexicon and a ‘computational system’ which forms LF and PF representations from lexical information. Thus, D- and S-structure, together with ‘government’ and X-bar are done away with