1. Uvod u lingvistiku week 2
doc.dr Tijana Dabić

2. 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.

3. 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../
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4. EARLY TO MID - 20TH CENTURY LINGUISTICS
Shift from language change to language description.
Ferdinand de Saussure ( ) – 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

5. 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.
Universal Grammar – elements and constructions available to all languages;
His late work very abstract…

6. 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.

7. Summery