Lectures on Government and Binding
Lectures on Government and Binding: The Pisa Lectures is a book by American linguist Noam Chomsky, published in 1981. It is based on the lectures Chomsky gave at the 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
With his book Syntactic Structures (1957), Chomsky established the concept of transformational generative grammar (TGG). 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. Lectures on Government and Binding is the next step in Chomskyan linguistic thought where Universal Grammar and its characteristics assume central importance.
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