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In the publications of ChomskyChomsky, Noam’s adherents, the Theory of Principles and ParametersPrinciples and Parameters, Theory of is often claimed to be a new paradigmparadigm as the result of a scientificscientific revolutionrevolutionscientific. As a typical example, let us quote GrewendorfGrewendorf, Günther who believes that »[t]he Principle and Parameter approach has permitted many subtle and revolutionaryrevolutionary discoveries over a broad domain of phenomena in a wide range of languageslanguage such that linguistic theorytheory for the first time in its historyhistory came close to its crucial objective of explanatory adequacy« (Grewendorf 2007: 370; emphasis added) and that by a »revolutionary hypothesis it brought about a completely novel view of language acquisition« (Grewendorf 2006: 134; translation by the present author). However, it is not clear in what sense here the term ›revolution‹ is used and what kind of historiographicalhistoriography approach it is part of. Nevertheless, all such occurrences of the term are probably latently applied in a KuhnianKuhnian sense, as Grewendorf (1993: 119) cites KuhnKuhn, Thomas S. and uses the same terminology. Accordingly, the thesis is:

(T16)

Government-BindingGovernment and Binding, Theory of Theory (the Theory of Principles and Parameters)Principles and Parameters, Theory of led to a KuhnianKuhnian revolution.evolutionrevolutionKuhnian

Thus the solution of (P) is:

(SP16)

The basic terms of the historiographyhistoriography of generative linguistics are ›revolution‹ and ›paradigm‹paradigm with respect to the Theory of Government and BindingGovernment and Binding, Theory of (Principles and Parameters), its central hypothesis is (T16) and its framework is KuhnKuhn, Thomas S. (1970) [1962].

However, it is not the above references that make (SP16) really interesting, but the debate that was initiated by LappinLappin, Shalom et al. (2000a) in the journal Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, because it raised the issue of the revolutionaryrevolutionary nature of the Theory of Government and BindingGovernment and Binding, Theory of in comparison to the Minimalist ProgramMinimalist Program. Therefore, we will summarize the essence of this debate when discussing the Minimalist Program in Section 2.5.2.2.