BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE HISTORY OF GRAMMAR

A glance through the past century or so of linguistics gives us an interesting picture of different interpretations of the linguistic theories. In the 1940s and 1950s, the structural, or descriptive, school of linguistics, with its supporters try to apply scientific observations of human language. In the decade of the 1960, generative -transformational linguistics was emerged by Noam Chomskey. The generative linguists describe language, and arrive at explanatory level of adequacy language. Chomsky (1964) states that "principled basis, independent of any particular language, for the selection of the descriptively adequate grammar of each." (p.63). This study attempts to describe different linguistic theories and their properties, and it explains why the new theories are emerged, and what needs to be reworked.