Title: On Chomsky's notion of explanatory adequacy
Abstract:Abstract The starting point of this work is the notion of explanatory adequacy. After summarising and analysing the presentation that Chomsky gives of this notion in the first works of generative gram...Abstract The starting point of this work is the notion of explanatory adequacy. After summarising and analysing the presentation that Chomsky gives of this notion in the first works of generative grammar, I consider the role that such notion has been playing in the construction of the theory of generative grammar and in the foundation of the Universal Grammar research program, focussing, in particular, on the last phase of generative grammar, that is, minimalism.Read More
Publication Year: 2021
Publication Date: 2021-11-01
Language: en
Type: article
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