A report on Generative grammar
Linguistic theory that regards linguistics as the study of a hypothesised innate grammatical structure.
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Noam Chomsky
6 linksAmerican linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historical essayist, social critic, and political activist.
American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historical essayist, social critic, and political activist.
He created or co-created the universal grammar theory, the generative grammar theory, the Chomsky hierarchy, and the minimalist program.
Minimalist program
5 linksIn linguistics, the minimalist program is a major line of inquiry that has been developing inside generative grammar since the early 1990s, starting with a 1993 paper by Noam Chomsky.
Linguistics
4 linksScientific study of human language.
Scientific study of human language.
Despite a shift in focus in the twentieth century towards formalism and generative grammar, which studies the universal properties of language, historical research today still remains a significant field of linguistic inquiry.
Transformational grammar
4 linksIn linguistics, transformational grammar (TG) or transformational-generative grammar (TGG) is part of the theory of generative grammar, especially of natural languages.
Principles and parameters
3 linksPrinciples and parameters is a framework within generative linguistics in which the syntax of a natural language is described in accordance with general principles (i.e. abstract rules or grammars) and specific parameters (i.e. markers, switches) that for particular languages are either turned on or off.
X-bar theory
3 linksIn linguistics, X-bar theory is a model of phrase-structure grammar and a theory of syntactic category formation that was first proposed by Noam Chomsky in 1970 and further developed by Jackendoff (1974, 1977a, 1977b ), along the lines of the theory of generative grammar put forth in the 1950s by Chomsky.
Functional linguistics
2 linksApproach to the study of language characterized by taking systematically into account the speaker's and the hearer's side, and the communicative needs of the speaker and of the given language community.
Approach to the study of language characterized by taking systematically into account the speaker's and the hearer's side, and the communicative needs of the speaker and of the given language community.
Functionalism is sometimes contrasted with formalism, but this does not exclude functional theories from creating grammatical descriptions that are generative in the sense of formulating rules that distinguish grammatical or well-formed elements from ungrammatical elements.
Structural linguistics
3 linksConceived as a self-contained, self-regulating semiotic system whose elements are defined by their relationship to other elements within the system.
Conceived as a self-contained, self-regulating semiotic system whose elements are defined by their relationship to other elements within the system.
In the generative or Chomskyan concept, a purported rejection of 'structuralism' usually refers to Noam Chomsky's opposition to the behaviourism of Bloomfield's 1933 textbook Language; though, coincidentally, he is also opposed to structuralism proper.
Grammar
2 linksIts set of structural constraints on speakers' or writers' composition of clauses, phrases, and words.
Its set of structural constraints on speakers' or writers' composition of clauses, phrases, and words.
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Leonard Bloomfield
2 linksAmerican linguist who led the development of structural linguistics in the United States during the 1930s and the 1940s.
American linguist who led the development of structural linguistics in the United States during the 1930s and the 1940s.
The influence of Bloomfieldian structural linguistics declined in the late 1950s and 1960s as the theory of generative grammar developed by Noam Chomsky came to predominate.