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Birth
Avram Noam Chomsky was born in Philidelphia, Pennsylvania. His parents were Jewish immigrants: father was from Russia and mother was from Belarus. Naom Chomsky had a younger brother, and they were brought up Jewish. -
Book released Syntactic Structures
Syntactic Structures was based his teacher Zellig Harris's model of transformational generative grammar. This book is summarized as just because a sentence is grammatically correct that doesn't mean it makes sense. This is why when you learn a new language you are told how to say it correctly. -
Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
This book delves further into his theory of how language works. This book further formulated his transformational generative grammar (TGG). This book established linguistics as a science.
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Age 94
At age 94 Chomsky is still active -
Citation
"Chomsky, Noam Avram." Gale Biographies: Popular People, edited by Gale Cengage Learning, 1st edition, 2020. Credo Reference, https://search-credoreference-com.ezproxy2.apus.edu/content/entry/galegbpp/chomsky_noam_avram/0. Accessed 06 Feb. 2022.