Whatmakesmodernlinguisticsdifferentfromtraditionalgrammer?.
Traditionalgrammarisbasedon“high”(religious,literary)writtenlanguage.Itisprescriptive.Itsetsmodelsforlanguageuserstofollow.Ittellsthelearnerwhatheshouldsay,orwhatissupposedtobecorrectusage.Ontheotherhand,modernlinguisticsismostlydescriptive.Modernlinguisticsissupposedtobescientificandobjectiveandthetaskoflinguistsissupposedtodescribethelanguagepeopleactuallyuse,beit“correct”ornot.Itsinvestigationsandanalysisarebasedonauthentic,andmainlyspokenlanguagedata.
