TOWARDS THE VERB GRAMMAR

The problem to bring out a grammar complete in all respects was from the. time language came into existence, as a result several theories and grammars emerged in east and west as well.We can refer to the grammars written in India by the names as Katantra, Saka!ayana, Jainendra, Mugdhabodha, Candra, Sarasvata, Pal).inian and to the western grammars as Traditional, Descriptive, Structural, Generative, Case, Stratificational, Lexical Functional, Generalised Phrase Structure and Communicative etc. Now why do we need a new grammar?It is a very general but fundamental question -the present paper attempts to answer this question and also to the question -what could be the proper frame for such a grammar?The grammars which are written in India are for individual languages but it is not the meaning that they do not have any reference or source material for Universal Grammar which we discuss these days.When we attentively view Indian Grammars, we find several concepts, which are defined there, quite proper for the frame of Universal Grammar.The structuralists emphasize on the process of segmenting and classifying the physical features of utterances with little reference to the abstract underlying structures of language or their meaning.In other words, they begin to think that the meaning is beyond the physical nature of language.So, no place may be given to meaning in the analysis of language (Bloomfield, 1980).Generativists specially Chomsky and Harris attacked on this approach of structuralists and advocated for a grammar which could be capable of seeing the structure with meaning (Crystal, 1985, p. 290).They (Generativists) also paid their attention towards the universal nature of language and began to formulate such a grammar which could be applicable on all the languages of world or may be language-universal.Thus shifting from structural to universal grammar, grammarians propagated different grammatical theories viz.Transformational Generative Grammar and Case Grammar etc. Case grammarians concentrated on case relations and that is why they name their grammar as Case Grammar (Jain, 1986).Language has such an intricacy where several models focused in their respective frames but ultimately failed in, it is because the existing grammars whether that may be structural or transformational, may be case or stratificational, may be lexical functional or generalised Nagoya Studies in Indian Culture and Buddhism: Sarrzbhii~ii 18, 1997