In his work Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (1965), Noam Chomsky introduces a hierarchy of levels of adequacy for evaluating grammars (theories of specific languages) and metagrammars (theories of grammars). These levels constitute a taxonomy of theories (a grammar of a natural language being an example of such a theory) according to validation.
adequacy has been interpreted by Chomsky since his first works. The first section is devoted to the analysis of the conceptual apparatus and the methodological
Although even descriptive adequacy on a large scale is by -no means easy to approach, it is crucial for the productive develop- ment of linguistic theory that much higher goals than this be pursued. To facilitate the clear formulation of deeper questions, Chomsky 1965 Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
2021年11月10日 · The starting point of this work is the notion of explanatory adequacy. After summarising and analysing the presentation that Chomsky gives of this notion in the first works of generative grammar, I c...
Chapter 1 of Chomsky 1965 (henceforth Aspects) doubles down on the goals of linguistic theory. Not only should we aim for descriptive adequacy – characterizing the possible human grammars – we should try to meet the more stringent demand of explanatory adequacy , reflecting the
When Chomsky introduced the levels of adequacy in (2), his main argument was that observational adequacy is not an interesting goal to aim for (1964:52-55). There is an interesting relationship between the two higher levels of adequacy, hinted at in (3). (3) It is not necessary to achieve descriptive adequacy before raising
2012年4月19日 · A grammar reaches explanatory adequacy if it can account for the fact that the principles of the internal grammar can get to be known by the speakers, i.e. if it can account for language acquisition. According to "Three levels of adequacy", corpus linguistics can offer a lot of new light on the research of translation studies.