The founder of Structural Grammar was—
Correct Answer :
Fries
Solution :
The correct answer is Fries.
Structural linguistics or structural grammar in the context of American linguistics was founded and pioneered primarily by Charles Carpenter Fries (along with Leonard Bloomfield). Fries published influential works such as The Structure of English (1952), which established the modern empirical approach to analyzing sentence structures, word classes, and syntactic patterns based on form and distribution rather than traditional prescriptive rules.
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