- Generative Linguistics :)

Chomsky´s theories represented, and still represent, both a strong break with American structural linguistics and, at the same time, basic continuity with ideas traceable back to de Saussure and beyond. The major changes introduced by Chomsky's theories were:

1. To challenge basic discovery procedure for linguistic research deriving from behavioral assumptions;

2. To reject the belief that language acquisition is habit formation;

3. To include intuitions and semanticc information as admissible linguistic data;

4. To center linguistic research on syntax;

5. To reject an item_arrangement approach in favir of an item-process aproach;

6. To devise a set of criteria for evaluating competing grammars; and

7. To propose as the goal of linguistic research the search