Desmistificando a gramática gerativa como uma teoria associal e a-histórica da mudança linguística

Abstract

Commonly a distinction is made between "diachronic linguistics" and "historical linguistics", in which the former would only handle structural linguistic data and the latter would consider the social (actually historical) issues in explaining linguistic change. The generative model, as a mentalist theory, has been classified as an asocial (hence diachronic) theory of linguistic change. The aim of this article is precisely to show that when the generative grammar starts to look at linguistic change and assumes language acquisition as the central place of linguistic change, it automatically becomes a social and historical approach of linguistic change and must necessarily be included in what is called "historical linguistics".