alleryModern descriptive linguistics rests on a structural approach shown in whose work?
AStephen Krashen
BMichael Swan
CElaine Ridge
DLeonard Bloomfield
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Leonard Bloomfield
1. Modern descriptive linguistics is based on a structural approach.
2. It is exemplified in the work of Leonard Bloomfield and others.
3. Hymes, Halliday and Chomsky are linked with other ideas such as communicative competence, functions and generative theory.
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