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  2. Noam Chomsky - Wikipedia

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    Libertarianism portal. United States portal. v. t. e. Avram Noam Chomsky (/ noʊmˈtʃɒmski / ⓘ nohm CHOM-skee; born December 7, 1928) is an American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", [ a ] Chomsky is also a major ...

  3. Syntactic Structures - Wikipedia

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    Syntactic Structures is an important work in linguistics by American linguist Noam Chomsky, originally published in 1957.A short monograph of about a hundred pages, it is recognized as one of the most significant and influential linguistic studies of the 20th century.

  4. The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory - Wikipedia

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    The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory or LSLT is a major work in linguistics by American linguist Noam Chomsky.It was written in 1955 and published in 1975. In 1955, Chomsky submitted a part of this book as his PhD thesis titled Transformational Analysis, setting out his ideas on transformational grammar; he was awarded a Ph.D. for it, and it was privately distributed among specialists on ...

  5. Theory of language - Wikipedia

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    Theory of language is a topic in philosophy of language and theoretical linguistics. [1] It has the goal of answering the questions "What is language?"; [2][3] "Why do languages have the properties they do?"; [4] or "What is the origin of language?". In addition to these fundamental questions, the theory of language also seeks to understand how ...

  6. Universal grammar - Wikipedia

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    Universal grammar (UG), in modern linguistics, is the theory of the innate biological component of the language faculty, usually credited to Noam Chomsky. The basic postulate of UG is that there are innate constraints on what the grammar of a possible human language could be. When linguistic stimuli are received in the course of language ...

  7. Chomsky's Universal Grammar: An Introduction - Wikipedia

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    304 (3rd ed.) ISBN. 9781405111874. Chomsky's Universal Grammar: An Introduction is a linguistics book about the concept of universal grammar as proposed by Noam Chomsky. First published in 1988, its third edition was authored by Vivian Cook and Mark Newson and released in 2007.

  8. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax - Wikipedia

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    Cartesian linguistics. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (known in linguistic circles simply as Aspects[ 1 ]) is a book on linguistics written by American linguist Noam Chomsky, first published in 1965. In Aspects, Chomsky presented a deeper, more extensive reformulation of transformational generative grammar (TGG), a new kind of syntactic theory ...

  9. Deep structure and surface structure - Wikipedia

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    Deep structure and surface structure (also D-structure and S-structure although those abbreviated forms are sometimes used with distinct meanings) are concepts used in linguistics, specifically in the study of syntax in the Chomskyan tradition of transformational generative grammar. The deep structure of a linguistic expression is a theoretical ...