3 stellar moments of liguistics

  • Period: 480 BCE to 200 BCE

    Moment 1 - Tradicional Grammar

    Greece
    The sophists
    Plato: onoma and rhema = logos
    Aristotle: distinguishes gender and time
    Gorgias: metaphor, analogy and apostrophe
    The Stoics
    Semainómenon = meaning
    Semainon = significant
    Pragma = "the object"
    The alexandrines: "the elements of euclid" (book)
    Hindu tradition
    Panini
    Sanskrit grammar: discovered in the century in the 19th century but was from the 5th century BC
  • Period: 60 BCE to

    Moment 1 - Grammar of Port Royal and Roman times

    Julius Caesar questions the analogy and anomaly
    Varro writes "lingua latina"
    - his work is divided into 3 parts: etymology, morphology syntax in 1660 is written the grammar of port royal (written by claude lancelot in collaboration with antoine arnould) where it exposes "the foundations of the art of speaking".
      is divided into 2 parts:
    -ortography and prosody
      -analogy and syntax
      is based on a rationalist thought
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    moment 2 - comparative method

    comparative method
    covers topics such as the romanticism that arises in Germany discovered the first language spoken by man later the scientific method was introduced which forced German linguists to bring Indo-European languages (languages spoken from India to Europe with very common features)
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    Moment 2 - neogrammarians

    neogrammed
    . K. Brugmann,
      H. Paul,
      A. Leskien
      H. Osthoff
    known as "young linguists" or "Junggrammatiker"
    there are linguistic changes like:
    -the transformation of Latin into Spanish, French, Portuguese, Provencal, Catalan and Italian.
    -the transformation of German into German, Gothic, English, Icelandic, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian.
    - there are also sound changes at this time
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    Momemt 3 - the structuralism

    ferdinand de saussure
    raises
    -the synchrony
    diacronia
    -Structuralism.:
            -Language is not a form nor a substance "
            - It was a movement that proposed a conception of the facts of language -Dicotomy: Language and speech.
    -Dicotomy: Synchrony and diachrony.
    -Dicotomy: Internal Linguistics and External Linguistics.
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    Moment 3 - noam chompsky , generative grammar

    (a set of theoretical frameworks for the study of the syntax of languages), generative transformational grammar and universal grammar Tso. Van Dijk (1979) drew attention to the fact that the linguistic name of the text does not refer to a single discipline, but that term is used to label any study that has text as its object.