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Chomskyan

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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.

Chomskyan [ˈtʃɒmskɪən]
adj
(Linguistics) of or relating to (Avram) Noam Chomsky, the US linguist and political critic (born 1928)
Translations
Chomskyan [ˈtʃɒmskɪən] ADJde Chomsky, chomskiano


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Key topics addressed include getting texts ready for syntactic analysis; the relevant syntactic phenomena and the sorts of concepts normally used to explain them--and how the basic categories of traditional syntactic analysis, derived from the languages that form the basis of the European tradition, need to be rethought for different languages; and the range of syntactic frameworks outside the Chomskyan tradition available to those working syntactic research.
Rather than presume a high degree of semantic transparency in a given encoded message, as was common to Saussurian and Chomskyan approaches to context and linguistic forms (Hanks 141), scholars in the field of anthropological linguistics have begun to focus more on the uses of, and the roles played by, language as utilized by the speaking subject (Duranti and Goodwin 1).
Yet Everett's life with the Pirahã didn't just cause a gradual disenchantment with the Chomskyan intellectual framework he had once cherished: it also triggered another, even more dramatic, de-conversion.
 
 
 
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