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The differences between Structural Grammar and Transformational Grammar

Structural Grammar:

1. Focuses on analyzing the structure of sentences based on the relationship between words within the sentence.

2. Emphasizes the importance of syntax and grammar rules in determining the meaning of a sentence.

3. Views language as a static system with fixed rules and structures.

4. Does not account for the variability and creativity in language use.

Transformational/Generative Grammar:

1. Focuses on the underlying rules and principles that govern language use, rather than just the surface structure of sentences.

2. Allows for the generation of new sentences by applying transformational rules to a base structure.

3. Views language as a dynamic system that is constantly evolving and being generated anew.

4. Accounts for the variability and creativity in language use by proposing universal principles that guide linguistic competence.

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Eliab Martinez                                              Differences between Structural Grammar and Transformational Grammar.                 

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Eliab Martinez                                              Differences between Structural Grammar and Transformational Grammar.                 

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Structural grammar and transformational grammar are two different approaches to the analysis and description of the structure of sentences in a language.

1. Structural Grammar:

Also called descriptive grammar.

Focuses on how sentences look on the surface.

Looks at observable grammar and sentence structure.

Doesn't go deep into hidden structures.

Describes what exists but doesn't generate new sentences easily.

2. Transformational Grammar:

Goes beyond surface structure.

Explores the deep structure of sentences.

Deals with underlying relationships and transformations.

Aims to generate a wide variety of sentences.

Has explicit rules for transforming one sentence into another.

3. Generative Capacity:

Structural Grammar: Limited in creating new sentences.

Transformational Grammar: Can generate a broad range of sentences.

4 Development and Influence:

Structural Grammar: More common in the early-to-mid 20th century.

Transformational Grammar: Became prominent later and had a big impact on linguistic theory.

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1. Focus on Structure:

Structural Grammar: Primarily concerned with the surface structure of sentences. It analyzes the grammatical and syntactic elements within a sentence without delving into underlying structures or transformations.

Transformational Grammar: Focuses on both surface structure and deep structure. It explores the transformational processes that generate different surface structures from a shared underlying structure.

2. Generative Processes:

Structural Grammar: Views language as a static system with a fixed set of rules governing sentence formation. It does not involve generative processes that transform one structure into another.

Transformational Grammar: Incorporates generative processes to explain how sentences with different surface structures can derive from a common deep structure through transformations.

3. Treatment of Syntax:

Structural Grammar: Focuses on syntax as a set of rules for arranging words in a sentence. It emphasizes immediate constituents and hierarchical structure.

Transformational Grammar: Explores the transformational processes that change the syntactic and grammatical structure of a sentence, considering both surface and underlying syntactic structures.

4. Flexibility in Sentence Generation:

Structural Grammar: Tends to have a more limited capacity for generating various sentence structures.

Transformational Grammar: Allows for greater flexibility in generating diverse surface structures from a common underlying structure, accommodating a broader range of sentence forms.

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Different between structural grammar and transformational grammar.

Structural grammar.

1.Formal Grammar is used to describe the structure of individual sentences.

2. structural grammar, by way of syntax, serves to enhance the semantics of each sentence.

3. Structural grammar focuses on cluster of structures — sounds, forms, word groups, phrases — working from smaller to larger units

4. structural grammar focuses on the specific system of language and the behavior of language

Transformational grammar

1. Transformational grammar focuses on the ability of human language, the mechanism of human brain and the nature of human thought.

2.Transformational grammar affects the syntactic structure of a sentence by way of morphology.

3.differs from the Renaissance linguistics in its relation to the theory of language.

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Diffrences between transformation and structural grammar.

1. Structural grammar is quite different form the Traditional Grammar. Instead if focusing on the individual word and its notional meaning or its part-of-speech function in the sentence.

2. earlier advocates tried to do so.), but it tends to emphasize syntactic over semantic meaning. That is, Structural grammar analyzes the meaning carried by the syntactic patterns that morphemes and words make with each other, patterns like those formed by plural morphemes, modifier-verb or modifier-adjective connections, subject-predicate connections, and so on.

3. Traditional Grammar often analyses it from meaning, from meaning to form; from the viewpoint of language teaching, Traditional grammar doesn’t give a systematic description of linguistic phenomenon.

4. Traditional grammar gives a predominant place to morphology and syntax, the treatment of lexis and phonology is very often inadequate in Traditional Grammar

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Difference between structural Grammar and transformational grammar.

1) Structural grammar focuses on cluster of structures working from smaller to larger units. TG grammar is a synthesis of contribution of Traditional grammar and

Structural grammar.

2) Structural grammar does not ignore semantic meaning, but it tends to emphasize syntactic over semantic meaning. In the transformational Grammar, the basis of the syntax is the deep structure, and the surface structure phenomenon, such as intonation, word order and themes-rheme. In the stage of extended theory, the focus has been transformed from individual grammar o universal grammar.

3) TG grammar shows us very clearly that it processes a great generalizing power. It is also able to clarify underlying structures and regularities, which have been ignored by grammarians of Traditional and Structural grammar.

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Differences between Structural Grammar vs Transformational Grammar:

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1. Focus on Structure:

Structural Grammar: Primarily concerned with the surface structure of sentences. It analyzes the grammatical and syntactic elements within a sentence without delving into underlying structures or transformations.

Transformational Grammar: Focuses on both surface structure and deep structure. It explores the transformational processes that generate different surface structures from a shared underlying structure.

2. Generative Processes:

Structural Grammar: Views language as a static system with a fixed set of rules governing sentence formation. It does not involve generative processes that transform one structure into another.

Transformational Grammar: Incorporates generative processes to explain how sentences with different surface structures can derive from a common deep structure through transformations.

3. Treatment of Syntax:

Structural Grammar: Focuses on syntax as a set of rules for arranging words in a sentence. It emphasizes immediate constituents and hierarchical structure.

Transformational Grammar: Explores the transformational processes that change the syntactic and grammatical structure of a sentence, considering both surface and underlying syntactic structures.

4. Flexibility in Sentence Generation:

Structural Grammar: Tends to have a more limited capacity for generating various sentence structures.

Transformational Grammar: Allows for greater flexibility in generating diverse surface structures from a common underlying structure, accommodating a broader range of sentence forms.

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1 structural grammar does not provide

the rules needed to construct an infinite range of grammaticality and TG grammar gives a more economical and

systematic description of language, it provides a system of rules which permits the generation of an

infinite number of grammatical sentences.

2 According to Structural grammar, each language presents

an individual structure. But TG grammar admits that descriptions of all languages have the same

general form and the same type of rules.

3structural grammar focuses on the specific system of language and the behavior of language. TG grammar focuses on the ability of human language, the mechanism of human brain and the nature of human thought.

4Therefore, in the study of linguistics,

structuralist linguists only describe all the linguistic facts that are observed strictly according to the

steps of the “the process of discovery”, and then make objective conclusions.

In contrast to structural grammar, Chomsky studies any material that reflects a language user’s tacit

knowledge of his or her mother tongue. He does not pay attention to what the speaker is saying, but

looks beyond the surface of the language to see the inner nature. Therefore, Chomsky focuses on the

study of human language ability

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Structural and Transformational Grammar differences:

1- Structural Grammar believes in the language's existence, while transformational doesn't.

2- Traditional Grammar follows psychological behaviorism, while Structural follows psychological spiritualism.

3- Structural Grammar studies language behavior, but Traditional studies the human language ability.

4- Structuralism considers language as a process of stimulus-response, while Traditionalism sees language as a process of hypothesis formation and verification.

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1. Structural Grammar is concerned with the surface structure of sentences. It consists of analyzing and describing the arrangement of words and the components of a sentence, while Transformational Grammar focuses on both the surface structure and the deep structure.

2. Structural grammar may focus more on describing observed sentences than on providing rules for generating new ones. Transformational grammar offers a more complete and systematic approach to generating a wide range of sentences.

3. Structural grammar may have difficulty dealing with certain types of linguistic ambiguity, since it focuses primarily on the surface structure of sentences. Transformational Grammar, on the other hand, offers a more flexible framework for dealing with ambiguity, since it addresses both surface structure and deep structure.

4. Structural grammar is based on static rules that dictate the admissible arrangement of words and components of a sentence. Transformational grammar, on the other hand, introduces dynamic transformations that make it possible to generate new sentences by altering the underlying structures.

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Differences between Transformational Grammar and Structural Grammar:

1. Focus:

Structural Grammar: Emphasizes the structure of sentences.

Transformational Grammar: Focuses on both surface and underlying structures.

2. Analysis Approach:

Structural Grammar: Static analysis of sentence structures.

Transformational Grammar: Dynamic analysis, considers transformations between structures.

3. Treatment of Ambiguity:

Structural Grammar: Struggles with ambiguity.

Transformational Grammar: Handles ambiguity more effectively.

4. Generative Capacity:

Structural Grammar: Limited generative capacity.

Transformational Grammar: Greater generative capacity, allows for more sentence variations.

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Differences between Structural Grammar vs Transformational

1- Structural grammar operates under the assumption that what is seen on the surface is also the straightforward meaning behind the words of a sentence. Everything is accepted literally and at face value, and no attempt to identify implied meanings is made.

2- The transformational approach looks beneath the surface of the words used in the sentence. It seeks to identify any implied as well as expressed meanings in the arrangement of the words.

3- Structural grammar is a means of analyzing written and spoken language. It is concerned with how elements of a sentence such as morphemes, phonemes, phrases, clauses and parts of speech are put together.

4-The transformational method does look at the arrangement of sentence elements, but it is concerned primarily with moving from one idea or phrase to another in a logical, clear way.

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difference between structural and transformational grammar:

1- Structural grammar focuses on cluster of structures — sounds, forms, word groups, phrases — working from smaller to larger units.

2- the object is base-generated within the verb phrase in generative grammar.

3- TG grammar focuses on the ability of human language, the mechanism of human brain and the nature of human thought.

4- the object is base-generated within the verb phrase in generative grammar.

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Differences between structural grammar VS transformational grammar

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Differences between structural grammar VS transformational grammar

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Structural grammar is the analysis of how spoken and written language works by studying parts of speech, clauses, and phrases. Transformational grammar goes a step further and accounts for the changes in phrase structures.

In particular, generativism shares these structuralist commitments:

Language as an interconnected hierarchical semiotic system

The distinction between competence and performance (language/parole)

Meaning and function expressed through distinctive features

Language susceptible to syntagmatic and paradigmatic analysis

Specific concepts such as phoneme, morpheme, lexeme

Language units as symbolic pairings of meaning and form

Linearity of language

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TG grammar is a synthesis of contribution of Traditional grammar and Structural grammar. As far as Structural grammar is concerned, Chomsky reconstruct ICA (Immediate Constituent Analysis) as a first stage of his grammar, but he went much further and satisfied the demands of precision in the formalization of his undergone several stages: classical theory, standard theory, extended theory, and revised extended theory

1. the advantages of TG grammar are: first, it actually combines syntax phonology, lexicon, and semantics. So, it gives an overall conception of the system language. And this system is more accurate and more complete that other grammatical model.

2. Second, TG grammar gives a more economical and systematic description of language, it provides a system of rules which permits the generation of an infinite number of grammatical sentences. Unlike Traditional grammar, rules stated in TG grammar are very clear and formally explicit.

3. Third, TG grammar shows us very clearly that it processes a great generalizing power. It is also able to clarify underlying structures and regularities, which have been ignored by grammarians of Traditional grammar and Structural grammar.

4. Fourth, TG grammar admits the existence of linguistic universals and analysis between languages at the level of deep structure. As for language universal, Traditional grammar admits the existence of language universals, but Structural grammar objects this view. According to Structural grammar, each language presents an individual structure. But TG grammar admits that descriptions of all languages have the same general form and the same type of rules. This refers to the former universals. And they also present common categories and deep structures and this refers to the substantive universals, and the last advantage of TG grammar is that it can characterize notions of grammaticality and degree of grammaticality which are indispensable in the area of evaluation, testing and error analysis.

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