Chomskyan

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Chom·sky (ch

), 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.

Chomskyan [ˈtʃɒmskɪən]

adj

(Linguistics) of or relating to (Avram) Noam Chomsky, the US linguist and political critic (born 1928)

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Chomskyan [ˈtʃɒmskɪən] ADJ → de Chomsky, chomskiano

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This raises another commended Chomskyan asset: media savvy.

Deconstructing Chomsky: America's leading leftist intellectual sees ... by Bauerlein, Mark / Reason

In the United States, Grabe and Kaplan (1996, 1997) promote SFG for teachers of ESL because of its claimed relevance to texts while dismissing any value of a Chomskyan approach because its sentence level focus.

On the dysfunctional nature of systemic functional grammar. (Language ... by Kenkel, Jim / Academic Exchange Quarterly

What unites cultures is not the neutral, universal set of meanings that Chomskyan linguists are trying to establish; you don't find it at that level.

The sublime theorist of Slovenia by Canning, Peter / Artforum International

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