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【前文回顾】
Since the days of Aristotle, a search for universal principles has characterized the scientific enterprise. In some ways, this quest for commonalities defines science. Newton’s laws of motion and Darwinian evolution each bind a host of different phenomena into a single explicatory frame work.
自亚里士多德的时代起，对普遍原理的探求就一直是科学事业的主要特征。在某些方面，寻找事物的共性也正是科学的定义/内涵。牛顿的运动定律和达尔文的进化论都是把很多不同现象纳入到一个单独框架来解释。
In physics, one approach takes this impulse for unification to its extreme, and seeks a theory of everything—a single generative equation for all we see. It is becoming less clear, however, that such a theory would be a simplification, given the dimensions and universes that it might entail, nonetheless, unification of sorts remains a major goal. This tendency in the natural sciences has long been evident in the social sciences too.
在物理学上，有一种方法是将这种追求统一的冲动发挥到极点，它寻找一种万能的理论，即一种单一的能够解释我们所能看到的一切的通用公式。然而，考虑到/鉴于这样的一种理论所涉及的维度和范畴，它是否还算是一种简化就变得越来越说不清楚了。尽管如此，寻找万物的统一性仍然是一个主要目标。很久以来，在自然科学这种趋势在社会科学中也很明显。
Here, Darwinism seems to offer justification, for if all humans share common origins, it seems reasonable to suppose that cultural diversity could also be traced to more constrained beginnings. Just as the bewildering variety of human courtship rituals might all be considered forms of sexual selection, perhaps the world’s languages, music, social and religious customs and even history are governed by universal features. To filter out what is unique from what is shared might enable us to understand how complex cultural behavior arose and what guides it in evolutionary or cognitive terms.
在这里，达尔文主义似乎提供了一个正当理由：如果所有的人类都有共同的起源，那么文化差异能够追寻到更有限的开端，这一假设好像也是合理的。正如人类令人眼花缭乱的多种求偶仪式都能被认为是性别选择的某种模式一样，世界上的语言、音乐、社会习惯和宗教习俗甚至历史都可能由某些统一的特点所驾驭。从共有特征中滤出独有特性，这可能使我们能够理解复杂的文化行为是如何出现的，并从进化或认知角度理解什么引导了它的走向。
That, at least, is the hope. But a comparative study of linguistic traits published online today supplies a reality check. Russell Gray at the University of Auckland and his colleagues consider the evolution of grammars in the light of two previous attempts to find universality in language.
至少，这是希望所在。但是今天网上发布的一篇语言特征的对比研究（为这一想法）提供了现实上的检验。在这之前的两个寻找语言共性的尝试的基础上，奥克兰大学的Russell Gray以及他的同事们对语法的演变进行了思考。
The most famous of these efforts was initiated by Noam Chomsky, who suggested that humans are born with an innate language-acquisition capacity that dictates a universal grammar. A few generative rules are then sufficient to unfold the entire fundamental structure of a language, which is why children can learn it so quickly.
这些艰辛的尝试中最著名的一个是由Noam Chomsky所提出的，他认为人类有一种与生俱来的语言习得能力，这种能力支配通用语法。一些语言生成规则就足以揭开某种语言的全部基础结构，这就是儿童学习语言如此之快的原因。
The second, by Joshua Greenberg, takes a more empirical approach to universality, identifying traits (particularly in word order) shared by many languages, which are considered to represent biases that result from cognitive constraints.
其次是Joshua Greenberg的（尝试），他采用了更经验主义的方法去研究语言中的普遍性，鉴别出许多语言所共有的特征（尤其是在语序方面），而这些特征被认为代表了认知约束所产生的偏好。
Gray and his colleagues have put them to the test by examining four family trees that between them represent more than 2,000 languages.
Gray和他的同事们通过分析四个语系树谱图对这两种理论进行了检验，这些树谱图呈现了2000多种语言。
【今日长难句】
Chomsky’s grammar should show patterns of language change that are independent of the family tree or the pathway tracked through it. Whereas Greenbergian universality predicts strong co-dependencies between particular types of word-order relations.
【结构解析】
1. 首句主干为主谓宾结构，即：Chomsky’s grammar /should show/ patterns of language change;
2. that are independent of the family tree or the pathway为定语从句修饰 patterns of language change；tracked throught it为the pathway的后置定语，其中it 指代the family tree，the pathway tracked through it 译为：（被用于）追踪语系树谱图的路径。
2. 二句主干为主谓宾结构，即：Greenbergian university / predicts / strong co-dependencies between particular types of word-order relations.
【词的处理】
pattern / ˈpætn; NAmE -tərn / n. 样式，模式
independent / ˌindiˈpendənt / adj. 独立的
pathway / ˈpɑ:θwei; NAmE ˈpæθ- / n. 路径
track / træk / vt. 跟踪，追踪
Whereas / ˌweərˈæz; NAmE ˌwer- / adv. 然而
co-dependence /kəudi'pendəns/ 共生；相互依赖
word-order adj. 语序的，词序
【参考译文】
Chomsky’s grammar should show patterns of language change that are independent of the family tree or the pathway tracked through it. Whereas Greenbergian universality predicts strong co-dependencies between particular types of word-order relations.
乔姆斯基的语法本应体现不受语系树谱图或其演变路径影响的语言变化模式，而柏林伯格的普遍性理论可以推测出某些特殊语序关系之间有极强的相互依赖型。
【明日长难句】
Neither of these patterns is borne out by the analysis, suggesting that the structures of the languages are lire age-specific and not governed by universals
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