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'''''Lectures on Government and Binding: The Pisa Lectures''''' ('''''LGB''''') is a book by Americanthe linguist [[Noam Chomsky]], published in 1981. It is based on the lectures Chomsky gave at the [[Generative Linguistics in the Old World|GLOW]] conference and workshop held at the [[Scuola Normale Superiore]] in [[Pisa]], Italy, in 1979. In this book, Chomsky presented his [[government and binding theory]] of syntax. It had great influence on the syntactic research in early 1980s, especially among the linguists working within the [[transformational grammar]] framework.

==Background==

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With his book ''[[Syntactic Structures]]'' (1957), Chomsky established the concept of [[transformational generative grammar]] (TGG), a formal approach to linguistic theorizing, and revolutionized the discipline of linguistics. In ''[[Aspects of the Theory of Syntax]]'' (1965), the TGG model went through a revision, which included the inclusion of a lexical component, the separation of deep from surface structures, and the introduction of some technical innovations such as syntactic features and recursive phrase structure rules. This ''Aspects'' model came to be known as the "Standard Theory". During the early 1970s, some of the rules in the Standard Theory got refined and led to the "Extended Standard Theory", where different syntactic levels contained information relevant to the meaning. Further revisions and technical innovations such as introduction of "empty categories", "X-bar theory", "D- and S-structures", and conditions on representations such as "Case filter", etc. led to the "Revised Extended Standard Theory", in which the grammatical model was greatly simplified. ''Lectures on Government and Binding'' contains the next step in Chomskyan linguistic thought where [[Universal Grammar]] and the investigation of its characteristics assume central importance.

==Universal grammar — principlesgrammar—principles and parameters==

In ''LGB'', Chomsky hypothesizes the following: universal grammar (UG) is the essential set of linguistic universals that every human child is born with. The UG contains a number of fixed "principles" that are true for all languages. Also embedded in the UG are flexible "parameters" that have to be fixed by experience. As the human child gains linguistic experience, its brain uses the limited linguistic evidence (see [[Poverty of the stimulus]]) at its disposal to fix the parameters of UG and give rise to, in a non-inductive manner, the core grammar of the child's first language.<ref>Chomsky 1981 : 3-4</ref>

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