The Comparison between Transformational generative Grammar(TG) and Systemic functional Grammar(FG)
Chomsky's transformational generative grammar(TG) and Halliday's systemic functional grammar(FG) are the most influential linguistic schools nowadays.Transformational generative grammar relates language with human being's physical and psychological features while systemic functional grammar interprets language from anthropology and sociology perspective.There are both differences and similarities between the two theories.This paper compares TG and FG from the following aspects:theoretical basis,views on the nature of language,and objects and approaches of linguistics study.