Chomsky

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noun

(Avram) Noam

[nohm, noh-uhm] , born 1928, U.S. linguist, educator, and political activist.

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Chomsky (ˈtʃɒmskɪ)

—n
	(Avram) Noam (ˈnəʊəm). born 1928, US linguist and political critic. His theory of language structure, transformational generative grammar, superseded the behaviourist view of Leonard Bloomfield

'Chomskyan

—n, —*adj*

'Chomskyite

—n, —*adj*

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"The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretation and a surface structure that determines its phonetic interpretation."

-Noam Chomsky

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