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Lilimary Posted 21 years ago
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basic tenets of functionalism and generativism
Who can explain basic tenets of functionalism and generativism for me? I'm confused about these two schools. Thanks.
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Welcome to English Forums, Lilimary. )-- Generative Grammar is a linguistic theory, developed by Noam Chomsky, that attempts to describe a native speaker's tacit grammatical knowledge by a system of rules that in an explicit and well-defined way specify all of the well-formed, or grammatical, sentences of a language while excluding all ungrammatical, or impossible, sentences. method=4&dsid=2222&dekey=Michael+Halliday&gwp=8&curtab=2222_1&sbid=lc04b .
- Welcome to English Forums, Lilimary.
- )-- Generative Grammar is a linguistic theory, developed by Noam Chomsky, that attempts to describe a native speaker's tacit grammatical knowledge by a system of rules that in an explicit and well-defined way specify all of the well-formed, or grammatical, sentences of a language while excluding all ungrammatical, or impossible, sentences.
- method=4&dsid=2222&dekey=Michael+Halliday&gwp=8&curtab=2222_1&sbid=lc04b .
- The model is systemic in the sense that it sees grammar as a non-arbitrarily motivated network (system) of potential choices.
- It is functional in the sense that it attempts to explicate the communicative implications (function) of a selection within one of these systems.
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Welcome to English Forums, Lilimary.
Here's a start at least (I slogged through Michael Halliday some years ago, but have never had the guts to tackle Chomsky.)--
Generative Grammar is a linguistic theory, developed by Noam Chomsky, that attempts to describe a native speaker's tacit grammatical knowledge by a system of rules that in an explicit and well-defined
Here's a start at least (I slogged through Michael Halliday some years ago, but have never had the guts to tackle Chomsky.)--
Generative Grammar is a linguistic theory, developed by Noam Chomsky, that attempts to describe a native speaker's tacit grammatical knowledge by a system of rules that in an explicit and well-defined
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MM is quite right. For example, genrative grammar doesn't consider the imperative function, or the request behind of a question, like "Can I have a glass of water?". Or for example it is in functional grammar that you can discuss that the first part of a sentence, theme, is the new information, and the following part, rheme, is the old information; generative grammar doesn't care.
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