| 英文摘要 |
The debate between the lexicalists-interpretivists and the generative semanticists can trace its beginnings to 1957, the year in which Noam Chomsky introduced his transformational-generative theory of grammar in his book, Syntactic Structures. That may seem peculiar when one realizes that the debate largely revolved around something that was lacking in Structures: the role of meaning in grammatical theory. However, before division could occur, there had to have first been a measure of unity, and both sides were united in the importance of a rule-based grammar as an explanation for how one acquired his first language. This was the major contribution of Syntactic Structures. Chomsky's theory attracted most linguistics students away from the prevailing structuralist viewpoint in the late fifties, but it later served to divide them into opposing transformational-generative camps in the late sixties. |
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