Government and Binding Theory

Randall Buth ButhFam at compuserve.com
Fri Apr 5 02:39:48 EST 2002


shalom Brian,

>Does G&B have application to teaching
>advanced Greek? Are there articles out there on this topic? Does anyone
>have suggestions on the validity of Chomsky's approach to syntax?<

Chomsky already left GB for his minimalist approach. 

I left EST generative/transformational for Dik's Functional Grammar 
twenty years ago and remain happy with its general approach to 
human language and syntax. It includes a 'psychological adequacy' and
'pragmatic adequacy' in addition to the Humskian 'descriptive adequacy'.
(PS: Humsky is how the name is pronounced here in Hebrew.)

blessings

Randall Buth




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