Grammar has of course always been a core topic within the discipline
of linguistics, but since the tale 1950s the field has come to be dominaced
by grarnmatical theory to an unprecedented extent. Overwhelmingly, the
grammatical theory that has established itself as the de facto standard
approach in linguistics is Noam Chomsky's generative grammar,
Generative grammar is concerned with the identification of rules that
allow native speakers of a language to distinguish grammatical sentences
in a language from ungrammatical ones, In this approach, syntax (i, e, the
set of rules governing word order) is regarded as largely independent or
semantics (i. e. the meanings expressed by words). For example, Chomsky
coined the falmous sentence 'colourless qreen ideas sleep furiously' in