THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL AND NATURAL FACTORS ON LANGUAGE

STRUCTURE.

Introduction: a language is influenced by the environment in which it is used. Putting

aside directionality a language influencing culture or vice versa, there are two things
are worth pointing out.

1. The idea of extra – linguistic environment shaping linguistic structure was self-
evident, that expect it to become more popular in linguistics, and instead, we
find the following categorical.
There are different interpretations of what this concept exactly means, but all
imply that syntax is best explained insolation from other linguistics subsystems

2. One of the reasons why the idea of autonomous syntax is so attractive is

undoubtedly because it prevents theoretical models from becoming too
complicated Chomsky, in which implies as much in saying that, it is
unreasonable to demand from a grammar that it accurately represents
language use in context, because this would lead into a maze or more and
more elaborate and complex analytic procedures that will fail to provide
answers for many important questions.
The nature of linguistic structure, this might explain why even in frameworks
formulated in opposition to regenerated linguistic theory.

3. Linguistic relativity: The concept of linguistic relativity was originally

formulated by Whorf, but probably eloquently expressed by Edward, who
started that language does not exist apart from culture that is from socially
inherited assemblage of practices and beliefs that determines the texture of our
lives.

(The structure of a language affects its speakers’ world view, or cognition and
the perceptions are relative to their spoken language)