What is the difference between traditional grammar and structural grammar?

Answer 1

the characteristics of traditional grammar are :

-it's based on the analysis of the target weitten language especially grammar wish was taught deductively throught the presentation and study of explicit rules .

- the foreing language was learned basicaly on the translation literary text .

- only the person who have certain level can learn foreing language .

-Teachers in that time were detactive .

- there is no systematic attention to the skills of speaking and listening .

Answer 2

By traditional grammar is meant basically the Aristotelian orientation toward the nature of language as exemplified in the work of the ancient Greeks and Romans, the speculative works of the medieval, and the prescriptive approach of the 18th century grammarians. The `Traditional Grammar' has a long tradition with it. There are ideas about sentence structure deriving from Aristotle and Plato, ideas about the parts of speech deriving from the stoic grammarians, ideas about meaning stemming from the scholastic debates of the Middle Ages, ideas about the relationship between language and mind deriving from seventeenth century philosophical controversies between rationalists imperialists, ideas about correctness in language coming from the eighteenth century grammars of English, and ideas about the history of language deriving from the nineteenth century emphasis on comparative philology.

It is the most widespread and influential and understood method of discussing languages in the world; fairly well understood and consistently applied by the teachers. Traditional grammar distinguishes between rational, emotional, automatic and purely conventional type of discourse in theory if not in grammatical practice. It gives fairly a thorough and consistent analysis of the declarative sentence. It is the vehicle by means of which ordinary students and scholars have mastered many languages for centuries.

In the words of Chomsky, "I think that we have much to learn from a careful study of what was achieved by the universal grammarians of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries." [It seems to me, in fact that contemporary linguistics would do well to take their concept of a language as a point of departure for a current work]

Answer 3

Traditional Grammar is a framework used to describe the structural pattern and rules in a language called syntax functions. A language is a composite form of vocal articulation and written form using the sets of rules of that vocalization or written structure of communication in any native language.

Answer 4

Traditional grammar is the Latin-based system of parts of speech, conjugations, declensions, tense, etc.

Structural grammar is a more recent, technical approach to grammatical analysis seen in Government-Binding Theory, Minimalism, Lexical Form, Semantics, etc., motivated originally by allowing computers to understand or produce language.

Answer 5

Grammar or syntax is set of rules of structure in the language .Language usage is the application of the language in vocalized or written communication in a language for communication or social interact.

Answer 6

In modern grammar, more slang is widely accepted, and some punctuation is slightly different. For example, if you were showing plural possession in traditional grammar, "dogs'" would be the correct syntax, whereas in modern grammar "dogs's" is accepted.

What?? Accepted by whom? This "answer" is nonsense. It uses grammatical terms in disregard for their meaning. All grammar is traditional. No one uses dogs's.

Answer 7

Traditional grammar mainly focuses on the role and meaning of individual words. Functional grammar is more concerned with units of meaning and typically groups words into units of contextual meaning.

e.g. "The fast red car", "Annie's pet dog"... = Nominal Group or Participant.

Sentences or clauses can thus be broken into functional units of meaning as below.

(The fast red car) (was driven by) (that dashing young man) (yesterday afternoon).

(Participant1) (Process) (Participant2) (Circumstance).

Functional Grammar is particularly useful for teaching language and literacy skills due to the focus on meaning.

Answer 8

All grammar is traditional and communicative. Grammar is grammar. It is the way a language works. It changes over time, as the language evolves.

There is a school of thought however that differentiates between traditional and modern grammar. While traditional grammar is static and does not change, modern grammar is the amorphous, fluid shifting of the rules of grammar over time.

Answer 9

the advantages are knowing the detailed facts and terms of grammartical categories and it is the only sources to base on to modify better ones.

Answer 10

What are the characteristics of traditional grammar?