Gibson 提出依存句法作为最简语法理论

The syntax of human languages has long been argued to be complex and even unlearnable from the input alone. However, the success of large language models (LLMs) has challenged this idea. I argue for a simple view of syntax, where the syntax of a language is just the set of dependency rules, with no phrase structure or transformation rules—constructs central to Chomsky’s transformational grammar. This approach accounts for diverse phenomena in human language processing and explains crosslinguistic word order universals. Moreover, it better explains human data for cases that differentiate these accounts and eliminates the syntax learnability problem. I speculate that LLMs, similar to children, learn the dependency grammar from linguistic patterns, leading to their impressive syntactic competence.

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