Lecture
The goal is a description of the language itself. Representatives - Bloomfield, Naida, Harris, and others. They sought a formal description of the language (morphological, syntactic).
The linguistic level is studied using the method of distributive analysis (analysis of the environment of language units that appear in speech).
The task is to identify the distributional relationships of the models.
The method of research on the direct components. They divided the sentence until division was impossible. Transformational method - through the transformation of sentences they tried to reveal the transformational grammar of any language. It was necessary to identify the model of the proposal for comparison: the search for differences and similarities.
Domestic linguists were also interested in structuralism.
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language theory
Terms: language theory