Noam Chomsky

By linda.kurdi
  • Avram Noam Chomsky born

    Avram Noam Chomsky born

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    Carol Chomsky (WIFE)

    CAUSE OF DEATH: CANCER She married Noam Chomsky in 1949, the two having known each other since she was five years old. Her mother had been a teacher at a Hebrew school where his father was the principal.

  • ENTERED: University of Pennsylvania (majored in linguistics) 

  • Began teahcing at Massachusetts Institue of Technology

    Began teahcing at Massachusetts Institue of Technology

    studied linguistics and philosophy under the tutelage of Zellig Harris

  • Earned his Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania

    studied linguistics and philosophy under the tutelage of Zellig Harris
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    Theory published in Noam's Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory

  • Aviva Chomsky (DAUGHTER)

  • Diane (DAUGHTER)

  • Current Issues in Linguistic Theory (book)

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    He held the Ferrari P. Ward Professorship of Modern Languages and Linguistics

  • Harry (SON)

  • The Sound Pattern of English (written w/ Morris Halle)

  • delivered the John Locke Lectures at Oxford

    Bertrand Russell Memorial Lecture at Cambridge University (1970), the Nehru Memorial Lecture in New Delhi (1972), and the Huizinga Lecture in Leiden (1977).

  • Language and Mind (book) and Studies on Semantics in Generative Grammar (book)

  • The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory

  • Knowledge of Language (book)

  • 83 yrs. old & doing well