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4.According to the text, what is your opinion about Chomkys criticism to structuralism? Support

your point of view and give an example.

We think that the criticism about structuralism are coherent and adequate because as Chomsky

says, structuralism limit us to create and specific system of words or allow us use only the

information that we can see but never give us the opportunity to create new words or introducenew information in a sentence.

For example, using generative grammar we can use recursive properties to make a sentence in

that we constantly embed new words. We use it when for example give information somebody:

She is my sister, she lives alone in her flat, she is a doctor and she.

In this case we can add extra information to continue with the sentence but in contrast, when we

talk about structuralism we cant embed new words or information, we have to use only the

information that we know and we can check with facts or evidence.

5. Write a brief summary about structuralism.

Structural Grammar: A grammar intended to explain the working of language in terms of the

functions of its components and their relationships to each other without reference to meaning.

Also, structuralism keep out semantics (construction of meaning) while analyzing individual

phonological units of sounds (phonemes), the construction of words (morphemes and inflections),

and syntax (function and relationship between sentence parts).

6. What said Chomsky about generative grammar? Explain.

Generative grammar extended from the work of Noam Chomsky and is find the idea that a deep

cognitive structure generates a syntactic base of all language and it consists of rules governing

phrase structure that are implemented in transforming elemental rules into complex expressions.

That means, there are naturally occurring cognitive rules for phrase formation that are naturally

applied in the construction of complex expressions of sentences as language expressions. The

transformations are expressed on the surface social structure as actual language. Various

languages have the same deep structure, it is postulated, while each has a different surface

structure expression.