| 单词 | universal grammar |
| 释义 | > as lemmasuniversal grammar universal grammar n. Linguistics a set of universal principles posited as underlying the grammars of all natural languages; spec. (in later use) such principles regarded as reflecting innate structures of the human mind and serving as the foundation for language acquisition (also with capital initials). ΚΠ 1751 J. Harris Hermes i. i. 7 We shall postpone the whole synthetical Part..and confine ourselves to the analytical, that is to say Universal Grammar. 1886 Times 3 Dec. 9 Little read works on questions of universal grammar. 1965 N. Chomsky Aspects Theory Syntax i. 6 The grammar of a particular language, then, is to be supplemented by a universal grammar that accommodates the creative aspect of language use and expresses the deep-seated regularities which, being universal, are omitted from the grammar itself. 1990 W. Nöth Handbk. Semiotics (1995) i. 20 It was a period of break with medieval scholasticism, in particular because of the discovery of the historicity and arbitrariness of language and the rejection of universal grammar. 1994 S. Pinker Lang. Instinct i. 23 Chomsky and other linguists developed theories of mental grammars underlying people's knowledge of particular languages and of the Universal Grammar underlying the particular grammars. 2001 Science 5 Jan. 115/1 Universal grammar is not learned but is required for language learning. It is innate. < as lemmas |
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