What is the difference between the Generativists and Structuralists

MEG – 04: ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE

ASSIGNMENT 2018 - 2019

(Based on Blocks (1 - 9)

          Max. Marks: 100

4. What is the difference between the Generativists and Structuralists? In what way have the Generative insights into language contributed to linguistic theory?

Generative grammar  is the theory of language proposed by Chomsky in his Syntactic Structures (1957). It provides a set of finite rules that defines the unlimited number of sentences of the language and associates each with an appropriate grammatical description.

There are two principal goals which underline this theory. They are :

1. The universal features (i.e features which are intrinsic to language as a whole) which constitute grammars of individual language should be characterized in formal terms.
2. Formal statements should be provided for characterizing the grammars of individual languages. This goal is equated with characterizing the tacit knowledge or competence which native speakers have about syntactic, phonological, morphological and semantic patterning in their language. Generative grammar sees the theory of competence as forming a central component of language which interacts with principles from cognition, neurology, physiology and other domains to give language its overall character

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