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Chomsky

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Chom·sky  (chmsk), Noam Born 1928.
American linguist and political theorist who revolutionized the study of language with his theory of generative grammar, set forth in Syntactic Structures (1957).

Chom·sky·an, Chom·ski·an (-sk-n) adj.

Chomsky [ˈtʃɒmskɪ]
n
(Biographies / Chomsky, (Avram) Noam (1928 M, US, LANGUAGE: linguist, POLITICS: political critic) (Avram) Noam (ˈnəʊəm ). born 1928, US linguist and political critic. His theory of language structure, transformational generative grammar, superseded the behaviourist view of Bloomfield
Chomskyan , Chomskyite n & adj
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Noun1.Chomsky - United States linguist whose theory of generative grammar redefined the field of linguistics (born 1928)


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