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BINDING THEORY | ||
| Ahl Al-Bait Jurnal | ||
| Article 1, Volume 1, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 384-394 | ||
| Author | ||
| Muhsin Ali Shreeb | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Over the history of applied linguistics ,different theories of learning have been proposed to account for how grammar is learned .During the middle of the previous century ,for instance ,grammar learning was though to take place through a process of verbal habit formation . In 1986 Chomsky made a new idea to emerge ,that is, the universality of grammar .Chomsky poisted that children are born with an understanding of the way languages work ,which was referred to as Universal Grammar. Universal Grammar (UG)is a complex theory which involves abstract and complicated sub-theories . UG is concerned with internal structure of the human mind . It is ,thus , psychologically oriented. This theory holds that the speaker knows a set of principles that apply to all languages .According to this theory the speaker knows as well a lot of parameters that vary within clearly defined limits from one language to another . This theory holds that acquiring language means learning how these principles apply to a particular language and which value is suitable for each parameter . This term paper tries to shed light on a small part of Chomsky's Universal Grammar ,i.e. Binding Theory. Binding Theory ,unlike Chomsky's other models ,does not rely on rules pre se ,but rather on principles . It is because ,according to UG ,knowledge of language dose not consist of rules as such but of underlying principles from which individual rules are derived. In general ,Binding Theory accounts for relations among anaphors (like :himself),pronominals (like him), and referring expressions (like John)and their possible antecedents in sentences . | ||
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