Universal Grammar by Noam Chomsky

Here is the one of my mini paper about linguistic understanding♥

 

               Universal grammar or what we call the UG is the king of linguistic theory. Naom Chomsky (1957), called a pioneer in the revolution because it was first published the psycholinguistic theory of UG. Syntactic structure in Publication Aspect Theory Syntax, introduce universal grammar as a general term, which established the general principles or universal in theory is a theory of grammar syntax which also raises a contradiction because it has a difficult explanation, abstract. This theory is very confusing many students of language. But later, Universal Grammar minimized to create a simple and elegant in linguistic theory. UG theory assumes that all languages ​​have a common structural basis and then arranged in a set of rules known as universal grammar, where a series of linguistic principles of universal grammar which is believed to be owned by all the family language. Then, for the gift that is owned, the properties of normal human brain develops causing it to learn the appropriate language to universal grammar. Universal Grammar will be the property owned by the brain allowing you to easily find the differences between word classes, such as adjectives and nouns, looking deeper, explanation for the rules of language, and able to analyze the sentence.

Just like Chomsky explained (Alwasilah, 1993, p.131) "Man is in boon innate ability that enables them to create new sentences that have never even heard and uttered"

Chomsky (1966, p.3) states That Two basic assumptions in generativelly Grammar. The first assumption is that human beings are essentially creative. In day-to-day actions speak or write, we usually produce or create novel grammatical utterances. Similarly, in the act of listening or reading, we give meaning to the utterances that we've probably never met before.

So, analysis of individual languages ​​will produce a specific grammar, and believed to be universal components of the grammar serves as the basic foundation for a particular grammar.

References:
Alwasilah, A. chaedar. (1993). Linguistik Suatu Pengantar. Bandung: Angkasa.
Chomsky, Noarn (1966). Cartesian Linguistics, Harper & Row.
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