English Dictionary

Baker's paradox

固有名詞

(linguistics) The apparent paradox that children learning English encounter many sentences amenable to dative shift (e.g. "give the book to me" → "give me the book") but apparently have no way to learn that this is not possible with certain verbs (e.g. "*donate me the book" is unacceptable), and yet rarely make this kind of error.

日本語の意味

（言語学）英語を習得する子供たちが、与格変換が可能な文―例えば『give the book to me』を『give me the book』に変換できる―と、ある動詞に対してはその変換（例：『*donate me the book』は不適切）が許されないという矛盾するように見える現象を示す概念。

Baker's paradox remains a central puzzle in syntactic acquisition: children rarely overgeneralize the dative alternation and seldom produce forms like '*donate me the book' despite hearing many examples of both 'give the book to me' and 'give me the book'.

ベイカーが指摘した逆説は統語習得における重要な謎のままであり、子どもたちは与格交替をほとんど過剰一般化せず、'give the book to me' と 'give me the book' の両方の例を多く聞くにもかかわらず '*donate me the book' のような形をほとんど産出しない。

意味（1）

(linguistics) The apparent paradox that children learning English encounter many sentences amenable to dative shift (e.g. "give the book to me" → "give me the book") but apparently have no way to learn that this is not possible with certain verbs (e.g. "*donate me the book" is unacceptable), and yet rarely make this kind of error.