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GRAMMAR - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Traditional grammars presuppose some knowledge of the language under description and tend to focus on aspects of the language that are variable or have changed.
    - - Generative grammarians take this as evidence of the superiority of the second grammar. as illustrated in (3). asterisks are used to mark unacceptable strings.
    - - Competence, according to Chomsky, refers to the knowledge that the native speaker has of his language, the system of rules, his ability to produce and understand. On the other hand, performance is the study of the system of rules.
    - - The focus on developing a general theory of grammar - "universal grammar” (UG), as Chomsky called it, is the most distinctive feature of the generative tradition. Although other linguistic traditions imply extensive cross-linguistic comparisons resulting in important hypotheses Some examples of linguistics universals in the generative style.
    - - this proposition is generally accepted by modern linguists.
        Although it is not unique to generative grammarians.