The discipline of linguistics can be likened to a path way which is being cut through the dark and mysterious

forest of language.

Also called Diachronic Linguistics, concerned with the study of phonological, grammatical, and semantic changes, the reconstruction of earlier stages of languages, and the discovery and application of the methods by which genetic relationships among languages can be demonstrated. They had its roots in the etymological speculations of classical and medieval times, in the comparative study of Greek and Latin developed during the Renaissance and in the speculations of scholars as to the language from which the other languages of the world were descended. The 19th century concerned with reconstructing Proto-indoEuropean, and making hypotheses about the way it split into the various modern languages..

In the 20 century, the emphasis shifted from language change to language description. The person responsible of that change was Ferdinand de Saussure, sometimes was called The father of modern linguistic. De Saussures crucial contribution was his explicit and reiterated statement that all the languages items are essentially interlinked

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Generative Linguistics and the Search for Universals In 1957, linguistics took a new turning. Noam Chomsky (MIT teacher) published Syntactic

Structures. According to Chomsky, Bloomfieldian

linguistics was too ambitious and far too limited in scope (unrealistic and limited) A grammar, he claimed, should be a description of old utterances. To Chomsky grammar means a persons internalized rules, and a linguists guess to these rules. Generative grammar set the rules for sequences possible and impossible in a language

such grammar is perfectly explicit, precisely

formulated