11 The history of synchronic linguistics: Some modern schools and movements:
structuralism, functionalism generativism.(Saussure, Bloomfield, Jacobson, Sapir Whorf,
Chomsky …), language functions.
Guidelines:
20th century movements in linguistics: historicism, structuralism, functionalism, generativism,evolutionism,behaviorism
Structuralism - Saussure, his theories
Functionalism - Prague school, representatives, functions of the language, functional sentence perspective
Generativism - Chomsky and his followers, theories
References:
1 Our lecture
2 or Goerge Yule: The study of language,CUP, chapter 10 (generative grammar),
and David Crystal: The Cambridge encyclopedia of language, CUP
and Lyons John: Language and linguistics, CUP