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Government and binding is a theory of syntax in the tradition of transformational grammar developed by Noam Chomsky (1981, 1982, 1986). This theory is a radical revision of his earlier (1957, 1965) theories and was later revised in A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory (1993) and several subsequent papers, the latest being Derivation by Phase (2001). Although there is a large literature on government and binding theory which is not written by Chomsky, Chomsky's papers have been instrumental in setting the research agenda.The name refers to two central subtheories of the theory: government, which is an abstract syntactic relation, and binding, which deals with the referents of pronouns and anaphore s. GB was the first theory to be based on the principles and parameters model of language, which also underlies the later developments of the Minimalist Program.
1 Further reading
- Noam Chomsky, "Lectures on Government and Binding", 7th Ed. 1993. Mouton de Gruyter. (First published 1981 by Foris Publications Holland).
- Liliane Haegeman , "Introduction to Government and Binding", 2nd Ed. 1994 Blackwell.
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