语言学是一门领先的科学。特别是索绪尔以来的语言学研究,更是流派林立,众说纷纭,一片蓬勃生机。传统语法卷帙浩繁,细腻深邃,富有哲理逻辑和文学情趣,发人深省,耐人寻味。结构语言学注重口头语,一扫书巷气,推崇“硬科学”,追求“纯客观”。那孜孜不倦的现场调查和丝丝入扣的结构分析,令人肃然,给人启迪。生成语言学是一股狂飙,是一场革命。它宣称:过去的语言学认为语言是第一性的,语法是第二性的,从语言出发研究语法,错了!语言是无穷尽的,语言学家资料占有得再多也是很有限的,因而研究得再详尽结论仍必定片面。它主张:语法才是第一性的,语言是第二性的;不是有语言才有语法,而是有语法才能生成无限的语言。因此,语言学研究的对象应该是与生俱来的人脑中的语言能力, Linguistics is a leading science. Especially since Saussure ’s linguistic research, it is full of schools with different opinions and vigorousness. Traditional grammar volume voluminous, delicate and profound, full of philosophical logic and literary interest, thought-provoking, thought-provoking. Structural linguistics focus on spoken language, sweep the book Lane gas, respected “hard science”, the pursuit of “pure objective.” That tireless on-site investigation and structural analysis of the slightest surprise, it is awe-inspiring. Generative linguistics is a hurricane, is a revolution. It asserts that in the past, linguistics regarded language as primary and grammar as secondary, that grammar was wrong from the perspective of language, that language was inexhaustible, that linguist information had more limited possession, Therefore, further exhaustive conclusions must still be made. It argues that grammar is primary and language is secondary, that grammar is not a grammar but a grammar to produce an infinite language. Therefore, the object of linguistic research should be innate human language ability in the brain,