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- Généralités
- Traditional Grammar and Modern Linguistics
Traditional Grammar and Modern Linguistics
Traditional grammar refers to the type of grammar study done prior to the beginnings of modern linguistics. Grammar, in this traditional sense, is the study of the structure and formation of words and sentences, usually without much reference to sound and meaning. Modern Linguistics is the scientific study of language and its structure.
- European Structuralism
European Structuralism
The theory of structuralism is not confined to a single discipline. In essence, all structuralism revolves around the concept of system, seen as the whole, and the internal contrasts within it. Structuralist ideas in linguistics have developed in Europe and America concurrently and autonomously at the beginning of the 20th century. They shared the conception of considering language a system and used descriptive tools in their analysis. - Structural Linguistics: American Structuralism
Structural Linguistics: American Structuralism
Leonard Bloomfield (April 1, 1887 – April 18, 1949) was an American linguist who led the development of structural linguistics in the United States during the 1930s and the 1940s. His influential textbook “Language”, published in 1933, presented a comprehensive description of American structural linguistics.
- Transformational Generative Grammar -TGG-
Transformational Generative Grammar -TGG-
From the late 1950s onwards, structural linguistics has sometimes been used with less popularity because supporters of generative linguistics initiated by Noam Chomsky have regarded the work of American structuralists as too limited in conception. They have argued that it is essential to go further than the position of items to produce a grammar which reflects a native speaker’s knowledge of language.