The document provides a historical overview of the development of grammar from ancient Greece to modern theories. It discusses the early traditions of grammar in ancient Greece and Rome, the rise of prescriptive grammar in the 18th century, and the emergence of descriptive approaches including structural and transformational-generative grammars in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The key schools and approaches covered include traditional prescriptive and descriptive grammars, structural descriptive grammar pioneered by Leonard Bloomfield, and transformational-generative grammar associated with Noam Chomsky.

1. Historical development of Grammar. Main theoretical grammar schools and approaches