Systemic approach and Chomsky´s approach to grammar

Systemic approach

Chomsky Approach

·         The central component is a chart of the full set of choices available in constructing a sentence , with a specification of the relationship between choices. ·         The systems are named , and so are all the alternatives within each system; and it is taken as axiomatic that these choice elements have semantic correlates. ·         Are also identified in terms of the analyst´s intuitive feeling for semantic relationships. ·         Provide a taxonomy for sentences ,a  means of descriptively classifying particular sentences. ·         Is more relevant for the sociologist because wants to be able to describe any patterns that emerge in the particular choices that given types of individual make in given circumstances from the overall range provided by their language. ·         It will operate operate at a specific rank(it refers  to a scale of sizes of grammatical unit).

·         Defines the class of well-formed sentences in a language by providing a set of rules for rewriting symbols as other  symbols. ·         The choice points are diffused throughout the description, and no special attention is drawn to them. ·         Chomsky do use a special term to describe some particular syntactic structure. ·         Include a constituency base defining a range of deep structures as well as a set of transformational rules converting deep into surface structures. ·         Appeals to the psychologist because wants a theory that describes languages , so that he can see what kinds of languages human beings are capable of using. ·         Some morphemes are dominated immediately or almost immediately by the root  S node , other morphemes are reached only via a long chain of many rules.