الاستعارة في اللسانيات التوليدية

Abstract EN

Where generative concepts come from ? how is the generative grammar created metaphorically from the arithmetic reasoning , namely the recursive theory? all those issues ,in this article, would be addressed from metaphor conceptual perspective which is used to understand how linguistic concepts are formed within generative framework, we focus on two metaphors; Word-as-Number and Grammar-as-Logical System.

a number of concepts had arisen in connection with the first metaphor , among them we can mention the following concepts; generative procedure, recursive rule, well-formed sentence, derivation, discrete infinity.

the second metaphor creates what the generative linguistics call the architecture of grammar which is based on two pillars ; the combinatory device which merges the syntactic objects into larger object ,and the interfaces in which the meaning and phonetic of syntactic objects were processed, This grammatical architecture was borrowed from the logical process where a logical formula is processed syntactically and semantically in two phases, the syntactic phase corresponds to combinatory phase in the minimalist grammar, while the semantically phase corresponds to interfaces.