Generative Grammar
'A Generative
grammar is a system of analysis usually identified with linguistics. By its
means a language can be viewed as a set of rules, finite in numbers that can
produce sentences'
By Mukesh Sharma
Broadly
speaking, a language is nothing but a group of sentences. If one is able to
produce correct sentences, one is said to have
learnt the language.
Since the
main purpose of studying the Grammar is to learn to understand, write and speak
standardized English, and common English grammar fails to teach this in
totality, a need of generative grammar
is felt.
The
Oxford Advance Lerner’s Dictionary describes the term generative grammar as: “a grammar that describes a language
by giving a set of rules which can be used to produce all the possible
sentences in that language.”
The term
generative grammar was first used by
linguist Noam Chomsky in United States of America who developed the theory of generative grammar in 1957 – syntactic structures.
Throwing light on the subject, Britannica Encyclopedia reveals:
“A
generative grammar is a system of analysis usually identified with linguistics.
By its means a language can be viewed as a set of rules, finite in number that
can produce sentences.”
There
was total disagreement among the linguists in accepting any of propagated
theories of generative grammar which
could be considered “as the best model for the generation of sentences as well
as for the description of natural languages.” Moreover, no generative grammar has ever been written which might help the
non-native speakers of English language to learn sentence-making without
learning the English grammar in detail or doing any translation from mother
tongue to English with the help of set rules of commonly used English grammar.
Why should you read this book?
This
book of Generative Grammar for English Language is based on the concept of Root
Elements. From 0 to 9, there are 10 digits. These 10 digits have given birth to
infinite numbers. Seven suras are the
basis of all the musical notes ever developed by man. According to Hindu
philosophy, all this material world – animate or inanimate, is made up of five
Root Elements – Earth, Fire, Air, Water and space. Such parent element can be
termed as Root Elements. There can be innumerable superficial and seemingly
distinctive probabilities born out of Root Elements. This is applicable to
language too. With the help of Root Sentences, one can learn to generate
sentences without the hassle of grammar or without doing any translation. One can enjoy the unique experience of sentence-making using root sentences, which
are mostly common to all the languages. One can’t think beyond these Root
Sentences. The knowledge of Root sentences helps you to generate hundreds of
sentences rather playfully on any object or person. The unique features of this
book are as follows:
1. It
seeks to help students who wish to learn English as their second language, and
want to learn sentence-making without any translation from mother tongue to
English or without learning the common English grammar in detail.
2.
It
helps you to think directly in English.
3.
It
helps you to develop thoughts.
4.
It
seeks to help you to write/speak 500 words on any object/person extempore.
5.
It
helps you to know traditional grammar without learning it.
Author,
sincerely believes that a determined and diligent English language aspirant would
find this book worth-reading. Author is confident that the esteemed readers
would realize that the book has potential to change the concept of English
learning.
The book, a bestseller, is available on Amazon.in. Very soon, it will available as e- book too.
