问我一个英语语言学问题

it's big topic...let me try...
firstly, modern liguistic is DESCRIPTIVE(to describe the way people speak) , whilst traditional grammar is PRESCRIPTIVE(to prescribe the way people speak, or simply, to tell people how to speak and let people know the correct way of their speaking )

secondly, tradition grammar pays more attention to the written form of language, while linguistics attaches more importance to speaking than writing.

thirdly, tradtional grammar has been restricted mainly to SYNTAX, that is, the way of words making patterns to form sentences, while linguistics has a boarder scope for researching, eg. pragmatics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, ect. which, accordingly, are out of the scope of traditional grammar.

of course, there are other differences between the old and new appoaches to language research, such as Diachronic vs Synchronic and so....

Modern linguistics owes a very large debt to "traditional grammar", but it departs from it quite a lot, in the following ways (among others):

* Linguistics aims to be general, and to provide an appropriate way of analysing all languages, and comparing them to each other. "Traditional grammar" is usually concerned with one language, and when it has been applied to non-European languages, it has very often proved very inappropriate.
* Linguistics has broader influences than "traditional grammar" has. For example, modern linguistics owes as much of a debt to Panini's grammar of Sanskrit as it does to Latin and Greek grammar.
* Linguistics is in many ways more descriptively rigorous, because it goes after accurate description as its own end. In "traditional grammar", description is often only a means towards formulating usage advice.

I don't know.

that's right

语言学和传统的文法之间的主要的不同是什么?