La Gramática Universal en el Programa Minimista

Abstract

This paper addresses various aspects of a novel proposal made by the chomskyan Minimalist Program (MP), as compared with previous stages in Generative Grammar: the idea of an underspecified Universal Grammar (UG). The content attributed to UG within the MP is identified, the reasons underlying the minimalist reduction of UG are made explicit, and the effects of the underdetermination of UG are analyzed with respect to both the issue of the specificity of human language and the studies on first language acquisition.