生物语言学的新进展:存活最简理论

A new development of biolinguistics: Survive-Minimalist Program

生物语言学近年的复兴始于最简方案理论的建构,但过去的最简方案只注意确认语言的构件如词库、计算系统、感觉运动系统和概念-意图行为系统,而没有考察它们的结构性关联以及生物学必要性和概念必要性。新进发展起来的存活最简理论认为词库、算式库和计算系统必须位于行为系统内,并据此提出新的语言机能结构设计,这一设计尽管简单、新奇,但提供了解释人类语言机能的新观点,并展示出对句法现象的最简解释力,因此具有较大的理论意义和实用价值。

The revival of biolinguistics began with the construction of Minimalist Program, which has paid significant attention to identifying the components of language — settling on a lexicon, a computational system, a sensorimotor performance system, and a conceptual-intentional performance system, but has not examined how these components are inter-structured to meet thresholds of biological and conceptual necessity. The newly developed Survive-Minimalist Program proposes a new structural design of language faculty based on the view that the lexicon, the numeration and the computational system must be located within performance systems. This design, although simple and novel, provides an insight into the human language faculty and exhibits an explanatory power for syntactic phenomena, and thus shows its theoretical significance and practical value.