A detail Vision of Grammar Studies

A Detail Vision of Grammar Studies
the term "grammar" was mentioned only regarding the notion "Latin grammar" as it was used in studying the Latin language in grammar schools.

The history of British Grammars begins when the textbook "Bref Grammar for English" written by W. Bullokar was published.

The model to this book was a Latin grammar book written by W. Lily.

In Bullokar's book, English grammar was comparing to the Latin one.

For example, W. Bullokar writes about 5 noun cases in the English language, in contrast with 6 cases in the Latin language.

In the second half of the eighteenth century, scientists entered a new stage in grammar studies - prescriptive or normative grammar. Since the main norms of the English language had been already described, it was time to standardize the correct norms of language usage.

This approach became famous because it was used in practical teaching.

In 1762 R. Lowth wrote a book "Short Introduction to English Grammar". Due to this book, R. Lowth is suggested to be the best British grammarian of the 18th century.

The end of the nineteenth century marked a new era - so-called "classical scientific grammar". It combined descriptive and explanatory grammars. H. Sweet's grammar book "A New English Grammar, Logical and Historical" was the book that introduced new ideas, it separated prescientific period and classical scientific grammar.

In the beginning of the 20th century, grammarians contributed a lot to the development of grammar (works by Otto Jespersen and Etsko Kruisinga.

A new direction in linguistics appeared in the 1950s - structural grammar which was developed in different directions. Among them there were the following: Descriptive Linguistics, Transformational Grammar, Generative Grammar, Generative Semantics.

The main contributor and founder of this direction is considered Ferdinand de Saussure.