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In an expository and documentary way, the dichotomous approaches that the linguist has created for the acquisition of language are shown under Ferdinand Saussuere's structuralist theories. And the generative theory created by Noam Chomsky with the syntactic grammar approach. Making methodological distinctions of paradigms of language based on language, showing its epistemological importance for the subject, for the speaker, the ontology of linguistics as an important reference in both currents, giving real meaning to "meaning" and "signifier", and in turn determining the discrepancies that these theories oppose from their roots, structuralist and generative respectively, within the formalist paradigm.
Beyond the theories of other authors, a brief tour will be made of several conceptual aspects that precede these linguistic approaches and reinforce the scientific nature of the research, concentrating the article on the process that Ferdinand Saussuere achieved in four dichotomous structuralist approaches, facilitating linguistic understanding. language acquisition, and as Noam Chormsky with his generative approach reinforces it grammatically through syntax.