This material has been prepared by the students of Group A.
(Based on Arregui 1996) STRUCTURALISM: heterogeneous school of
linguistics which was developed in Europe and America in the
first half of the 20th Century. Two of the most prominent
structuralist linguists are: We will also pay attention to
Chomsky's view of language and linguistics that differ from
structuralist ideas. Saussure distingished in Linguistics
between: LINGUISTICS should be concerned only with the study of
langue because the study of parole requires the attention to
other sciences such as psychology, physics or physiology. Even
syntax is outside the domain of linguistics since a langue is a
system of signs, and does not specify how those signs are
combined in actual speech. Syntax would rather belong to parole,
not to langue. Behaviorism was a school of psychology. According
to this school science can only deal with physical facts.
Statements must be based on these physical characteristics.
Thus, science must observe, describe physical f