Government-binding/principles and parameters theory

Howard Lasnik; Terje Lohndal

doi:10.1002/wcs.35

Government-binding/principles and parameters theory

Wiley Interdiscip Rev Cogn Sci. 2010 Jan;1(1):40-50. doi: 10.1002/wcs.35. Epub 2009 Dec 30.

Authors

Howard Lasnik¹, Terje Lohndal¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742-7505 USA.

PMID: 26272837
DOI: 10.1002/wcs.35

Abstract

Principles and Parameters Theory is an approach to the study of the human language capacity based on an abstract underlying representation and operations called 'transformations' successively altering that structure. It has gradually evolved from the Government and Binding Theory to the Minimalist Program. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. For further resources related to this article, please visit the WIREs website.