问题
填空题
The generative linguist is interested not only in describing language but aslo in______language. In other words, they attempt to find the______ as well as the why in the study of language.
答案
参考答案:explaining, what
解析: 乔姆斯基曾提出好的理论需要满足三点:观察充分性(observational adequacy),描写充分性(descriptive adequacy),解释充分性(explanatory adequacy)。因此生成语言学家不仅对语言的描述感兴趣,也对语言的解释感兴趣。换言之,他们试图在语言研究中找到语言学习的内容(what)和语言学习的原因(why)。