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Government and binding (GB, GBT) is a theory of syntax and a phrase structure grammar in the tradition of transformational grammar developed principally by Noam Chomsky in the 1980s.[1][2][3] This theory is a radical revision of his earlier theories[4][5][6] and was later revised in The Minimalist Program (1995)[7] and several subsequent papers, the latest being Three Factors in Language Design (2005).[8] Although there is a large literature on government and binding theory which is not written by Chomsky, Chomsky's papers have been foundational in setting the research agenda.
The name refers to two central subtheories of the theory: government, which is an abstract syntactic relation applicable, among other things, to the assignment of case; and binding, which deals chiefly with the relationships between pronouns and the expressions with which they are co-referential. 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.
- ^ Chomsky, Noam (1993) [1981]. Lectures on Government and Binding: The Pisa Lectures. Mouton de Gruyter.
- ^ Chomsky, Noam (1982). Some Concepts and Consequences of the Theory of Government and Binding. Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 6. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262530422.
- ^ Chomsky, Noam (1986). Barriers. Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 13. MIT Press.
- ^ Chomsky, Noam (2002) [1957]. Syntactic Structures (Second ed.). Mouton de Gruyter.
- ^ Chomsky, Noam (1965). Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. MIT Press.
- ^ Chomsky, Noam (1970). Remarks on Nominalization. In Studies on Semantics in Generative Grammar (1972). The Hague: Mouton. Pages 11–61.
- ^ Chomsky, Noam (1995). The Minimalist Program. MIT Press.
- ^ Chomsky, Noam (2005). "Three Factors in Language Design" (PDF). Linguistic Inquiry. 36 (36): 1–22. doi:10.1162/0024389052993655. S2CID 14954986.