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The Early Chomskyan Linguistics

何宏華

The early generative linguistics is hereby referring to the period from Noam Chomsky’s first publication in 1953 to the end of the 1960s. Since at that time few others than Chomsky himself were active in developing transformational-generative theory, therefore, an analysis of the relation between early generative linguistics and structuralist linguistics which was prominent then, is largely a study of the development of Chomsky’s methodological practices, especially of how he has used corpus observation methods, native speaker intuitions, and the linguist’s own intuitions. Six phases are divided, (the division is to a large extent on my personal subjectivity, which maybe doubtful to some others): (i) the earliest publications 1953-1955 where the seeds of generative grammar already are to be seen, (ii) his 1955 dissertation which contains the basic outline of generative syntax but was not published until 1975, (iii) the important publications from 1956 leading to Syntactic Structures 1957 and almost immediate widespread international attention, (iv) work by Chomsky and others now joining him in the period 1958-1964, making the theory more mature and introducing the first comprehensive grammar fragments, ultimately leading to (v) Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (1965), the full-blown version of what came to be called the Standard Theory; and finally, (vi) the late 1960s when the generative community was split and generative semantics appeared. My focus in this overview is on syntax which has always been the central concern of generative linguistics.

主講人：何宏華

文學博士（北京師範大學）。主要研究領域：句法學，語義學，英語教學。在國内外學術刊物發表論文多篇（《外語教學與研究》，《當代語言學》，Journal of East Asian Linguistics等），出版專著一部（《漢語量詞轄域與邏輯式》2007年，北京：語文出版社），譯著一種（《喬姆斯基》2010年，北京：北京大學出版社）。

主持人：董潔

時間:      2017年11月9日周四 12:30-13:30

地點:      文南樓204會議室