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Volume 4,Issue 7
31 March 2026
Binarity of Language: An Alternative to Chomskyan Analysis of Syntactic Structure
Yunyun Qian ,
Jianlin Chen
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1
National Research Center for Foreign Languages Educational Materials (NRCFLEM), Shanghai International Studies University (SISU), Shanghai, 200083, China,
2
Faculty of Arts, Shanghai University of Electric Power (SUEP), Shanghai, 201306, China,
IEF 2026 , 4(3), 94–125;
https://doi.org/10.26689/ief.v4i3.14443
© 2026 by the Authors. Licensee Whioce Publishing, Singapore. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
Abstract
This paper proposes and defines the new construct of Pedagogical English Grammar based on a scrutiny of English grammar from the perspective of prescriptivism. Thenceforth, cognitive binarity manifests itself in Pedagogical English Grammar, involving noun-verb binarity and other binary characteristics, which are identified as Binarity of Language that can form an intersection with machine language by way of Boolean calculation. Furthermore, Binarity of Language gives rise to an alternative to Chomskyan analysis of syntactic structure and can dissolve the Chomskyan UG conundrum. This paper formally endorses the term of Chomskyan Linguistics, as it designates human-oriented theoretical linguistics as an interdisciplinary field of study concerning such disciplines as biology, physics, and mathematics.
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