1. Students: Oscar Fuentealba
Kehila Rosas
Date: March 21st, 2013
Subject: General
Linguistics
Professor: Héctor Turra

2. What do we understand by
Linguistics?
• Linguistics is a systematic study of
the nature, structure, and variation
of human language.
• In the major branches of linguistics
we can find
Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology,
Syntax, and Semantics.

3. Generative Linguistics
• It’s a school of thought
within linguistics that makes use of
the concept of a generative
grammar.

4. • Generative linguistics includes a set
of explanatory theories developed
by Noam Chomsky in the 1960’s.

5. • Chomsky’s concept of generative
grammar implies a finite set of
rules that can be applied to
generate sentences, at the same
time capable of producing infinite
number of strings from the set
rules.

6. Generative Grammar
• In linguistics, it’s a set of rules that
indicates the structure and
interpretation of sentences
which native speakers of
a language accept as belonging to
the language.

7. Deep Structure and
Surface Structure
• Deep Structure represents syntactic
relations.
Example:
The bear was chased by the lion
• Surface Structure is a derived
representation of a Deep Structure.
Example:
The lion chased the bear