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    1) The document provides reading guide questions for sections 1 through 3 of "Introduction to Government and Binding Theory" by Liliane Haegeman from 1994. 2) It asks students to define key concepts from generative grammar like what makes language unique to humans, what "grammar" means, why linguists create hypotheses, and how the theory accounts for language acquisition. 3) The reading guide is meant to help students understand foundational concepts in generative linguistics like Universal Grammar and how theories aim for descriptive, observational, and explanatory adequacy.

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    1) The document provides reading guide questions for sections 1 through 3 of "Introduction to Government and Binding Theory" by Liliane Haegeman from 1994. 2) It asks students to define key concepts from generative grammar like what makes language unique to humans, what "grammar" means, why linguists create hypotheses, and how the theory accounts for language acquisition. 3) The reading guide is meant to help students understand foundational concepts in generative linguistics like Universal Grammar and how theories aim for descriptive, observational, and explanatory adequacy.

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    Julieta Irigoyen
    1) The document provides reading guide questions for sections 1 through 3 of "Introduction to Government and Binding Theory" by Liliane Haegeman from 1994. 2) It asks students to define key concepts from generative grammar like what makes language unique to humans, what "grammar" means, why linguists create hypotheses, and how the theory accounts for language acquisition. 3) The reading guide is meant to help students understand foundational concepts in generative linguistics like Universal Grammar and how theories aim for descriptive, observational, and explanatory adequacy.

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    Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata – Facultad de Humanidades

    Departamento de Lenguas Modernas – Gramática Inglesa II

    Name: Date: Reg. #:

    GENERATIVISM

    BIBLIOGRAPHY:
    Haegeman, Liliane (1994) Introduction to Government and Binding Theory, 2nd Edition.

    PART 1 – Reading guide


    Read sections 1 through 3 (pages 4-18) from Haegeman (1994) and answer the following
    questions.

    a) What does the author mean when she states that “language is human-specific”?
    b) What is “grammar”? What do we mean when we say that a sentence is “grammatical”?
    c) Why do linguists formulate hypotheses?
    d) Compare descriptive and observational adequacy.
    e) Compare the concepts grammatical and acceptable.
    f) What is it meant by “the problem of the poverty of stimulus”?
    g) How does the theory account for language acquisition?
    h) What is UG?
    i) What is explanatory adequacy?

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