Comparative Study between Traditional Grammar and Modern Linguistics

摘要

The paper gives a brief introduction on Traditional grammar and Modern linguistics, and mainly analyses their similarities and differences. The standard the Traditional grammar established is according to the language used by the writers of previous centuries and also gave classical examples. Modern linguistics is a science of linguistic study, which starts from descriptive grammar, structure grammar, functional grammar, transformational-generative grammar (case grammar) and many other grammars. It points out that though they are quite different, Traditional grammar is the base from which Modern linguistics is derived.