In this post I would like to continue sharing about an international journal. The title of the journal is The Role of Morphology in the Process of Language Acquisition and Learning. In previous post I shared a little of Introduction of the Journal, and in this post will share a little about literature review. Honestly this Journal has no literature review, so I take some statement form the literature expert.

For the generativists language is not static, complete, but a dynamic, always developing phenomenon, a process of the mind of the speaker. They have as a goal the description of this linguistic capacity of the human brain. Chomsky says: It is necessary to reject this [Saussure's] concept of langue as merely a systematic inventory of ítems and to return rather to the Humboldtian conception of underlying competence as a system of generative process (Aspects 4).

Closely related to this is the productivity of morphological rules. The variety of patterns and the lack of productivity of many of them has provoked the apathy of linguists for morphology. But there are also some linguists who consider morphology as productive as syntax (see Di Sciullo and Williams 7-10).

We cannot afford to look into the human brain in order to watch how it processes language. To solve this problem linguistics build hypotheses which have to be contrasted with new linguistic data in order to verify their appropriate working. In this way we are able to build the theory of a particular language, its grammar. This grammar attempts to describe the «linguistic competence of the fluent native speaker of the language» (Radford 2).