Syntactic Structures

Name: Syntactic Structures
Author: Noam Chomsky

by Noam Chomsky

Linguistic theory of generative grammar as innate universal cognitive capacity

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Noam Chomsky

American linguist and political activist who revolutionized linguistics by proposing that language is a biological capacity with an innate grammatical structure. Manufacturing Consent, co-written with Edward Herman, is the most influential analysis of how mass media serve elite interests. He is the most cited living academic.

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