Editing Government and binding theory (section)

{{Short description|Theory of syntax}}{{Independent sources|date=August 2023}}{{Linguistics|Grammar}}'''Government and binding''' ('''GB''', '''GBT''') is a theory of [[syntax]] and a [[phrase structure grammar]] in the tradition of [[transformational grammar]] developed principally by [[Noam Chomsky]] in the 1980s.<ref name = LGB>{{cite book|title=[[Lectures on Government and Binding: The Pisa Lectures]]|orig-year=1981|year=1993|publisher=Mouton de Gruyter|author=Chomsky, Noam}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Some Concepts and Consequences of the Theory of Government and Binding|author=Chomsky, Noam|publisher=Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 6. MIT Press|year=1982|isbn=9780262530422 |url=https://archive.org/details/someconceptscons0000chom|url-access=registration}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Barriers|author=Chomsky, Noam|year=1986|publisher=Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 13. MIT Press}}</ref> This theory is a radical revision of his earlier theories<ref>{{cite book|title=[[Syntactic Structures]]|author=Chomsky, Noam|orig-year=1957|year=2002|publisher=Mouton de Gruyter |edition=Second }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=[[Aspects of the Theory of Syntax]]|year=1965|publisher=MIT Press|author=Chomsky, Noam}}</ref><ref>Chomsky, Noam (1970). [http://babel.ucsc.edu/~hank/mrg.readings/Chomsky1970_Nominalization.pdf Remarks on Nominalization]. In ''Studies on Semantics in Generative Grammar'' (1972). The Hague: Mouton. Pages 11–61.</ref> and was later revised in ''[[The Minimalist Program]]'' (1995)<ref>{{cite book|title=[[The Minimalist Program]]|author=Chomsky, Noam|publisher=MIT Press|year=1995}}</ref> and several subsequent papers, the latest being ''Three Factors in Language Design'' (2005).<ref>{{cite journal|author=Chomsky, Noam|title=Three Factors in Language Design|year=2005|journal=Linguistic Inquiry|issue=36|pages=1–22|doi=10.1162/0024389052993655|volume=36|s2cid=14954986 |url=http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/linguistic_inquiry/v036/36.1chomsky.pdf}}</ref> Although there is a large literature on government and binding theory which is not written by Chomsky, Chomsky's papers have been foundational in setting the research agenda.

The name refers to two central subtheories of the theory: ''[[government (linguistics)|government]]'', which is an abstract syntactic relation applicable, among other things, to the assignment of [[grammatical case|case]]; and ''[[binding (linguistics)|binding]]'', which deals chiefly with the relationships between [[pronouns]] and the expressions with which they are [[co-referential]]. GB was the first theory to be based on the [[principles and parameters]] model of language, which also underlies the later developments of the minimalist program.