Student's name: Irene Francés Martí
Title of the paper: The study of language by Transformational-generative
grammar : Noam Chomsky the founder of this linguistic theory.
Author or topic: Transformational-generative grammar (Chomsky, Noam
).
Abstract or summary of the research in not more than 100 to max.150
words:In this paper, I´m going to talk about Transformational-generative
grammar, which attemps to define rules that can generate the grammatical
sentences possible in a language. The objective I have proposed myself
is to compare Transformational-generative grammar to other linguistic theories.
On the other hand, I´m going to talk about the american linguist
Noam Chomsky (1928-) as an example of Transformational-generative grammar´s
linguists, and I also want to establish a contrast between Chomsky (that
defends innate structures as the basis for speech ) and Saussure or others
(that defend learning as the basis for speech). I will talk about Chomsky
because he has been considered the founder of Transformational-generative
grammar and he revolutionized the study of language. He has written numerous
linguistics works, e.g., The Sound Pattern of English (1968; with
Morris Halle), Reflections on Language (1975).