Transformation as a Principle of Language Development (Based on the Material of the Armenian Language)

Abstract

Transformation, if all the changes that occur in a language are concentrated in it, represents the "living spirit" of its structure, which allows a huge array of all kinds of names and designations to create a dynamic world of human communication. The term has become especially used since the middle of the last century, after the publication of N. Chomsky's book "Syntactic Structures", however, it is used more in relation to syntactic structures, while not only word formation and form formation, but also syntax itself with its units are a product of transformations. If the latter are considered at the level of synchrony, they find a place in descriptive grammar and lexicology and are defined no more than units of the language system. If they are considered in diachrony, they clearly indicate the development of language and linguistic thinking. Since this is the first time the problem is posed in this way, the paper attempts to show the fruitfulness and importance of studying transformations in the history of one language, using the example of Armenian, described from the very beginning of the 5th century AD. The results, we think, are of great interest to the philosophy of language and the science of the development of thinking.