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Select the correct sequence according to the development of grammars :

  • A.Traditional grammar-structured grammar-transformational grammar-universal grammar
  • B.Universal grammar-traditional grammar-transformational grammar-structural grammar
  • C.Structural grammar-traditional grammar-transformational grammar-universal grammar
  • D.Transformational grammartraditional grammar-universal grammar-structural grammar

Answer: A

The development of grammars goes from traditional grammar (the Greek and Latin tradition), to structural grammar (the early twentieth-century descriptive school of Saussure and Bloomfield), to transformational grammar (Chomsky, 1957) and then universal grammar (Chomsky's later principles-and-parameters view). The order given in option A, with 'structured' standing for structural, is therefore right.

Option B starts with universal grammar and option C puts structural grammar before traditional, so they reverse the history. Option D begins with transformational grammar, which is too early in the order.

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