20 Mayıs 2014 Salı

The Notion and Development of Universal Grammar

In very broad sense Universal Grammar - I will abbreviate it as UG all through this article- is the grammatical properties shared by all human languages. (1) When Chomsky put forward the idea of Innateness Hypothesis in the 1960s he also mentioned UG as a part of his theory. After behaviorism Chomskian revolution in linguistics shifted the mentality from empiricism to rationalism. As a result of...