强式最简命题及相关的几个理论问题  

Strong Minimalist Thesis and Some Related Theoretical Issues of Generative Grammar

作　　者：陈满华[1] CHEN Man-hua(School of Liberal Arts,Renmin University of China,Beijing 100872,China)

机构地区：[1]中国人民大学文学院,北京100872

出　　处：《东北师大学报（哲学社会科学版）》2024年第5期64-74,共11页Journal of Northeast Normal University(Philosophy and Social Science Edition)

摘　　要：本文主要根据乔姆斯基近年发表的文献,梳理其关于生成语法在强式最简命题框架下的部分重要思想,尝试解读、阐发其中所蕴含的重要意义,认为强式最简命题思想的发展与生物语言学框架的明晰化密切相关。“强式”体现在两方面:在基本理念上,主张语言机能的原初设计具有最优性,具体表现在生成过程的最佳性、运算(系统)的有效性以及思维语言的完美性;在具体方案构建即技术手段上,主张合并操作具有唯一性和最简性。普遍语法必须满足可学性、可演化性及普遍性三个条件,具有“真正的解释”特征的理论就是能满足这三个条件的理论,其中普遍性条件最重要。同时认为乔姆斯基的语言思维工具说里的“语言”不是人们通常理解的语言概念。Based mainly on the recent publications by Noam Chomsky,this paper discusses major important ideas in them within the framework of Strong Minimalist Thesis(SMT),trying to interpret the implicational meanings in them.Main ideas are as follows:There is a strong connection between the development of SMT and the specification of the framework of biolinguistics.The strongness of Minimalism is symbolized in two ways:(1)from the point of view of basic tenet,the primitive design of language is optimal,namely it is of the optimality of generation,the efficiency of computation,and the perfectness of the language of thought.,and(2)from the viewpoint of the establishment of particular program(technical operation),Merge is the single and simplest operation.Three conditions that must be met by Universal Grammar(UG)are learnability,evolvability and universality(coverage and exclusion).The theory with the property of“genuine explanation”is actually the one that can meet the three conditions,of which universality is the most important.The term“language”in Chomsky's assumption that language is the tool for thought is not a generally understood concept of language.

关 键 词：强式最简命题 最佳性 UG的三个条件 真正的解释理论 思维语言 

分 类 号：H0-06[语言文字—语言学]