A Comparative Study of Government and Binding Theory and Minimalist Theory in English, Persian and Turkish
Journal Title: Language Teaching Research Quarterly - Year 2017, Vol 2, Issue
Abstract
This research is aimed to show the efficiency and sufficiency of Minimalist Theory in comparison with government and binding, to this end, absolute tenses of past, present and future of three languages (English, Persian and Turkish) were first analyzed within government and binding theories then the results of this analysis were compared with minimalist theory. Government and Binding theory helps to design computational model in natural language processing. It was developed principally by Noam Chomsky in the 1980s (Chomsky, 1993) also, Minimalism refers to a program under the Principles and Parameters Theory, which started in 1993 with a paper by Noam Chomsky (Boeckx, 2006). Data of this study was gathered by library facilities such as books also one of the authors is native speaker of Turkish language. Data analyses revealed that not only minimalist theory is more sufficient and efficient than Government and binding Theory but also it was more economical.
Authors and Affiliations
Ali Akbar Jabbari, Mina Hosseini, Aysan Kolahdouzipour
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