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p;to  explore  the  potential  relation between the omission of verbal inflection and ILG impairment within the framework of MP, and to further discuss the possible causes concerning why some L2ers usually omit and incorrectly use verbal inflection in their ILGs. The research results, of course, will bring some positive suggestions for English teaching and learning.  The  significance  of  the  study  is  as  follows.  First  and  foremost,  examining  the verbal  inflectional  system  and  interlanguage  syntactic  system  helps  to  discuss  the relation  between  L2  morphology  and  syntax  as  to  whether  they  are  independent  of  or directly related with one another.  Furthermore,  the  discrepancies  between  the  opinions of  “impaired  ILG”  and  “unimpaired  ILG”  also  lie  in  their  relationship.  Secondly,  the research findings we obtain in this study will not only help L2ers better acquire and use English  inflectional  morphology,  but  also  bring  some  inspiration  and  practical suggestions  to  teachers  in  English  teaching.  Last  but  not  least,  previous  studies  in  this respect,  both  at  home  and  abroad,  are  mainly  empirical  ones,  longitudinal  or cross-sectional. Moreover, the subjects in foreign studies focus largely on children and adults,  while  those  in  domestic  studies  are  mostly  Chinese  students  from  high  schools and  non-English  majors  from  universities.  Very  few  choose  English  majors  as  their subjects  and  collect  data  from  certain  corpus.  Thus,  the  present  study,  with  different subjects and methodology, attempts to make a little contribution to studies in this field. 
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Chapter Two  LITERATURE REVIEW 

2.1 Universal Grammar and Its Development 
UG Theory is proposed by Chomsky to address the problem of “the poverty of the stimulus” or “the logical problem of language acquisition” in child FLA. In Chomskyan sense, UG refers to the language faculty built into the human mind, seen as consisting of principles and parameters, that is, “the system of principles, conditions, and rules that are  elements  or  properties  of  all  human  languages....the  essence  of  human  language” (Chomsky,  1975,  p.  29).  As  the  core  of  Chomsky’s  linguistic  theory,  it  has  developed for  over  50  years  and  gone  through  five  phases,  namely,  Transformational  Generative Grammar;  Aspects,  later  Standard  Theory;  Extended  Standard  Theory; Government/Binding (GB) Theory; and MP. All of them are mainly about Chomskyan description of syntax and each has become known by本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。