10 TYPES OF GRAMMAR

Karollyny da Silva Pereira Cardoso

1 - COMPARATIVE GRAMMAR

The science which determines the relations of kindred languages by examining and
comparing their grammatical forms.

2 - GENERATIVE GRAMMAR

A linguistic theory that attempts to describe a native speaker's tacit grammatical

knowledge by a system of rules that specify all of the well-formed, or grammatical,
sentences of a language while excluding all ungrammatical, or impossible, sentences.

3 - GRAMMAR MENTAL

The mental representation of grammar. The knowledge that a speaker has about the
linguistic units and rules of his native language. The rules in your mental grammar are
not necessarily the sorts of rules that are written down or taught anywhere; rather, they
are the rules in your head that tell you how to combine sounds and words to create well-
formed utterances

4 - PEDAGOGICAL GRAMMAR

A pedagogic grammar is a description of how to use the grammar of a language to

communicate, for people wanting to learn the target language. It can be compared with a
reference grammar, which just describes the grammar of the language. Pedagogic
grammars contain assumptions about how learners learn, follow certain linguistic
theories in their descriptions, and are written for a specific target audience.

5 - PERFORMANCE GRAMMAR

Performance Grammar is a psycholinguistically motivated grammar formalism. It aims to

describe and explain intuitive judgments and other data concerning the well–formedness
of sentences of a language, but at the same time it hopes to contribute to accounts of
syntactic processing phenomena observable during language comprehension and
language production.

6 - REFERENCE GRAMMAR

A description of the grammar of a language, with explanations of the principles

governing the construction of words, phrases, clauses, and sentences.

7 - THEORETICAL GRAMMAR

The study of the essential components of any human language.

8 - TRADITIONAL GRAMMAR

The collection of prescriptive rules and concepts about the structure of the language.

9 - TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR

Is a system of language analysis that recognizes the relationship among the various
elements of a sentence and among the possible sentences of a language and uses
processes or rules (some of which are called transformations) to express these
relationships.

10 - UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR

Universal grammar is a linguistic theory, proposed by Noam Chomsky, that argues that
the ability to learn language is innate, distinctly human and distinct from all other aspects
of human cognition.