Uvod u lingvistiku week 2 doc.dr Tijana Dabić
Historical path EARLY TO MID - 20TH CENTURY LINGUISTICS HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 21st CENTURY FUTURE TRENDS MID to LATE - 20TH CENTURY LINGUISTICS Linguistic interests tend to vary from century to century.
HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS Plato and Aristotel, (nouns and verbs). Before 19th century - philosophers; 1976 birth of lingistics, Sir William Jones, striking similarities between Indian and European languages common source Proto-Indo- European; comparative grammmars, making hypothesis towards modern languages; Darwin parallel On the Origin of the Species – theory of evolution; Young Grammarians group – language change is regular (chin /kin/ chicken, chip, child ...initially /kicken, kip../ https://study.com/academy/lesson/history-of-the-english-language-influences- development.html
EARLY TO MID - 20TH CENTURY LINGUISTICS Shift from language change to language description. Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) – the father of modern lingustics; Course in General Linguistics (1915); Language = Chess game – all linguistic items interconnected; Leonard Bloomfield (1887 – 1949) – more interested how items were arranged tha in meaning; established a framework for linguists working on unwritten languages by analyzing the corpus of collected utterances by studying the phonological and syntactic patterns of the language concerned
MID to LATE - 20TH CENTURY LINGUISTICS 1957 Noam Chomsky Syntactic Structures revolution in linguistics; explored the system which produces the output? “ Grammar should be more than a description of old utterances” Chomsky used the word ‘ grammar’ to mean not only the rules but which person has inside their head which specify the sequences of their language, but also a linguistic’s attempt to express these rules, which he labelled GENERATIVE GRAMMAR. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKrXR0tQHi0 Universal Grammar – elements and constructions available to all languages; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIJ5jD1jHwo His late work very abstract…
21st CENTURY FUTURE TRENDS Huge number of psychologists, neurologists, anthropologists, sociologists…took interest in language and linguistics; New disciplines: sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics…. Recent work has started to explore human language capacity in a more down- to-earth way.
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