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