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English grammatical history has a long tradition until the 17 century.

The term grammar in English


meant the study of letter. ONE of the earliest and the most popular latin Grammar in English by William
Lily was published in the 1 part of the 16 century. Among the English grammar that appeared in the 1
part of the 17 centure …..

These prenormative grammaer describe different language phenomenon classification the og


the problem of number of cases in English and the syntactic system.

The age pf the prescriptive grammar begins in the 2 half of the 18 century. It was R. Lowth’s first
published in

The aim of the prescript. Grammar was to reduce ……. and set up strict rules of language usage

By the end of the 19 century the appearance of the scientific grammar became possible. H. Sweets gave
a scientific explanation of the grammatical phenomena.

Structural grammar

Structural grammariers Ch. Fries, began treating the problems of the structure of English

TG grammar appeared in

In which transformation rules are capable of producing an infenet number of sentences. This serial
grammar was firstly introduced in and has been developen in Z. Harris

Generative Semantics is a serial grammar developed as an alternative to the TG model mentioned


earlier in which sementic structure has a generative role. This grammar is based on semantics. Was
introduced by J. Lyons.

Textual linguistics is a study of communicative text rather than grammatical sentences. Its aim is to
observe such devices as coherence and cohesion needed for the theoretical description of texts.

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