Whether the traditional linguistics, structuralist linguistics or transformational-generativelinguistics all thought linguistics studied only language itself.
无论传统语言学、结构语言学或是转换生成语言学,都认为语言学研究的对象只是语言本身。
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Transformational-GenerativeLinguistics thinks that grammar is a kind of "sentence-making machine" and many sentences can be generated by making use of grammar.
转换生成语言学家认为语法是一种“生成句子的机器”,人们可以利用语法来造很多的句子。
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Cognitive linguistics and generativelinguistics are opposed in ascertaining word classes, the former adopting functional and semantic standards and the latter, syntactic ones.