Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist.
He is often regarded as the greatest linguist of the 20th century and has indisputably been the most influential one.
His seminal early work on formal language theory and computational complexity theory is by now an established part of the foundations of computer science.
universal grammar?
Introduction of the hierarchy of formal languages via automata models of grammar:
THE classic text of modern (generative) linguistics introducing tree representations:
Introduction of features into syntax and first general constraints on grammar transformations:
The founding text of modern generative phonology? carrying a heavy debt to structuralist linguistics:
Taking issue with the generative semantics “heresy” as well as laying down the foundations of contemporary phrase structure theory:
Containing the early “debates” with Montague semantics:
The mature and genuine framework of generative linguistics as it evolved from 25 years of research:
Many well established concepts are tossed overboard when optimality is adopted as central design feature of natural language in
The preliminarily last word is here
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