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Aspects Of Bura Noun Phrase
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1.8 BRIEF REVIEW OF CHOSEN FRAMEWORK
Government and Binding theory refers to theory of syntax propounded by
Chomsky (1981,1982,1986). This theory is a radical revision of his
earlier (1965,1987) theories was revised in a minimalist programme for
linguistic theory (1993).
The name refers to central sub
theories of the theory. Government can be referred to as
an abstract syntactic relation and Binding deal with the referents or
pronoun R-expression.
G.B was the first to be base on the
principle and parameters mode of language, which also underlines the
later development of the minimalist programme. Government and Binding is
a theory of universal grammar, which is one system of all the principle
that are common to all human languages (Haegeman 1991:13) It is
otherwise known as principle and parameter the in the sense that .GB,
the grammar is a continuos interaction between components and sub
theories embedding different principles and parameters (cook 1988:31).
It has two levels of representation related by transformation rule move
alpha.
Move alpha is stipulated by movement, that is the
syntactic level is elaborated by the concept of movement (cook 1988:30).
G.B requires two levels of syntactic representation. The deep structure
(D-structure) which is the level at which we obtain all information on
the words and their combination, it consists of base rules, lexical
rules, strict sub-categorization, selectional restrictions, phrase
structure rules (yusuf 1997:68).
It is the level at which elements in the sentence are in their original location (cook 1988:30).
We also have the surface structure level ( S-structure) which is the
level at which some components in the sentence have been moved. The
s-structure is clearly generated from the D-structure by the application
of movement rules. There is relationship between deep structure and the
surface structure, they are related by movement.
1.9 THE SUB-THEORIES OF G.B
Chomsky postulates a set of interacting sub-theories each of which
deals with some control area of grammatical enquiry. Each of these may
be subject to parametric variation. That is to say, it is assumed that
the grammar of languages vary in only finitely many ways with respect
the domain covered by sub-theory. All these -theories of G.B theory
operates in a modular form, this theory itself is referred to as modular
deductive theory of grammar. The sub-theory assumed are the
following.
i. X- bar theory
ii. Theta theory
iii. case theory
iv. Binding theory
v. Bounding theory
vi. Control theory
vii. Government
theory
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