Chomsky's linguistic theory and its applications to the Arabic language

Abstract

The article tries to investigate the extent to which the Arabic language has taken Chomsky’s modern and contemporary linguistic theory, both generative and transformational, on the logical and functional sides. It also investigates the uses made of the importation of its terminology such as Transformational grammar and syntactic theory, the meaning of transformation and its axes in grammar, rhetoric, semantics, usage and context, and shows the four forms of transformation: "submission and delays; rank, increase of generative structures, deletion, projection, and replacement", and other terms that make up the theoretical framework of the theory. The importance of this research lies in identify this ability in Arabic to embrace the mechanisms of Western linguistic theories and that they are applicable to Arabic with very little change to their specificity