Lectures on Government and Binding

By Noam Chomsky. 1981

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Experience Grounds Language (2020, background): “So while we might choose to believe that we can encode parameters (Chomsky, 1981) more effectively and efficiently than evolution provided us, developmental experiments indicate doing so without 3D”
Generating Typed Dependency Parses from Phrase Structure Parses (2006, background): “In more complex theories there is signiﬁcant debate: dominant Chomskyan theories (Chomsky, 1981) have deﬁned grammatical relations as conﬁgurations at phrase structure, while other theories such as Lexical-Functional Grammar has rejected the adequacy of such an approach (Bresnan, 2001).”
Hedge Trimmer: A Parse-and-Trim Approach to Headline Generation (2003, background): “The first step relies on what is referred to as the Projection Principle in linguistic theory (Chomsky, 1981): Predicates project a subject (both dominated by S) in the surface structure.”
Similarity-based interference in sentence comprehension: Literature review and Bayesian meta-analysis (2017, methodology): “This noun cannot be a legal antecedent to the reflexive because Principle A of the Binding Theory (Chomsky, 1981) requires that an antecedent noun c-command the reflexive—the distractor lies inside a relative clause, preventing it from c-commanding the reflexive.”
Learning English Bilingually: Age of Onset of Exposure and Rate of Acquisition Among English Language Learners in a Bilingual Education Program (2005, background): “These facts and others have led researchers to believe that language acquisition is inwardly directed by innate principles of Universal Grammar (UG) (Chomsky, 1981), or an internal “bioprogram,” as Bickerton (1981) has termed it.”
A content-addressable pointer mechanism underlies comprehension of verb-phrase ellipsis (2008, background): “Pronouns and other overt anaphors have different binding constraints than PRO (Chomsky, 1981; cf. Landau, 2003).”
General conditions for predictivity in learning theory (2004, unknown): “For example, the principles and parameters approac”
Dissociations between Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations (2005, unknown): “It maintains three binding principles, analogous to those of Chomsky (1981) ; they are given informally in (5):2”
Learning Long-Distance Phonotactics (2010, methodology): “It does not rely on the additional structure provided by the parameters or cues in the principles-and-parameters (P&P) framework (Chomsky 1981, Dresher and Kaye 1990, Gibson and Wexler 1994).”
Negative evidence in language acquisition. (1993, background): “…evidence from the distribution of certain patterns of discourse between parents and children, argue that parents “‘Indirect negative evidence” (e.g., Chomsky 1981) - information about which sentences have not appeared in the input - is sometimes offered as a third type of evidence available to…”