Language sciences rely less and less on formal syntax as their base. The
reason is probably its lack of psychological reality, knowingly avoided.
Philosophers of science call for a paradigm shift in which explanations are by
mechanisms, as in biology. We turned to programming languages as heuristic
models for a process-based syntax of English. The combination of a functional
word and a content word was chosen as the topic of modeling. Such combinations
are very frequent, and their output is the important immediate constituents of
sentences. We found their parallel in Object Oriented Programming where an
all-methods element serves as an interface, and the content-full element serves
as its implementation, defining computational objects. The fit of the model was
tested by deriving three functional characteristics crucial for the algorithm
and checking their presence in English grammar. We tested the reality of the
interface-implementation mechanism on psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic
evidence concerning processing, development and loss of syntax. The close fit
and psychological reality of the mechanism suggests that a paradigm shift to an
algorithmic theory of syntax is a possibility.

本文提出一种基于编程语言的过程式英语句法编码方案，其中功能词和内容词作为众多句子的直接成分，借鉴面向对象编程中接口实现的思想得到实现，经过语言学和神经语言学的实证检测和验证，证明了这种基于算法的句法结构的有效性以及其可能推动句法理论的范式转变。