@article{Borges_2021, title={Language variation and change in the Generative Framework}, volume={2}, url={https://cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/cadernos/article/view/470}, DOI={10.25189/2675-4916.2021.v2.n4.id470}, abstractNote={<p>This article discusses two processes common to natural languages, namely, variation and change, from generative linguistic framework, which conceives the capacity of the human species to acquire languages ​​as a genetic endowment. More specifically, this article provides a generative analysis of the theoretical assumptions involved in the concepts of variation and change, presenting the treatment and development of these concepts and parallel concepts in two stages of generative frameworks: the Principles & Parameters theory and the Minimalist Program. Against theoretical models that defend the possibility of irregular linguistic transmission and a certain gradualness in the process of syntactic change, the arguments of this work are much more completely in harmony with a view of discontinuity for the process of syntactic change than those which conceive an imperfect language acquisition for explaining syntactic change.</p>}, number={4}, journal={Cadernos de Linguística}, author={Borges, Humberto}, year={2021}, month={Sep.}, pages={e470} }