The Study of Language
The study of language, linguistics, has been developing into a science since the first grammatical descriptions of particular languages in India more than 2000 years ago. Today linguistics is a science that concerns itself with all aspects relating to language, examining it from all of the theoretical viewpoints described above.
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The Study of Language - Contemporary Linguistics
1960s Noam Chomsky formulated the generative theory of language ... According to this theory the most basic form of language is a set of syntactic rules that are universal for all humans and which underlies the grammars of all human languages ... Thus he considered that the grammars of individual languages are only of importance to linguistics insofar as they allow us to deduce the universal underlying rules from which the observable linguistic variability ...
1960s Noam Chomsky formulated the generative theory of language ... According to this theory the most basic form of language is a set of syntactic rules that are universal for all humans and which underlies the grammars of all human languages ... Thus he considered that the grammars of individual languages are only of importance to linguistics insofar as they allow us to deduce the universal underlying rules from which the observable linguistic variability ...
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