Historical Background

Modern linguistics began to develop in 18th century, reaching the golden age in the 19th century. The first half of the 20th century was marked by the structuralist school based on the Ferdinand de Sassure in Europe and Edwar Sapir and Leonard Bloomfield in the United States. The 1960s saw the rise  of many new field of linguistics such as Noam Chomsky's Generative Grammar, William Labov's Sociolinguistics, Michael Halliday's systematic functional linguistic and also modern psycholinguistics.