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Noam Chomsky Birth - December 7, 1928 Death- Currently Alive (89 yrs old)

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  • Noam Chomsky

    Noam Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928, and is currently 89 years old. He has written over 100 articles on linguistics, etc. and has inspired many fields with combining language and science into one field.

  • Syntactic Structures by Noam Chomsky

    In 1957, Noam Chomsky book, "Syntactic Structures" was published. As being a relatively unknown author and scholar, it took some time before people started to notice his work. In his work, he developed an idea called transformational generative grammar. This idea considers that grammar is a system of rules that determine a specific output. His ultimate goal is to have a "formalized theory of linguistic structure".He sees that science and language are linked together.

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    His successfully attempts at looking at language from a different perspective inspired countless young scholars to this day. He caused a massive shift in thinking to see language as his ideal system. For Chomsky, his goal is to build a grammar of the language. He defines grammar as a device which produces all the sentences of the language under study.

  • Syntactic Structure by Noam Chomsky 3

    "He defines grammar as a device which produces all the sentences of the language under study. Secondly, a linguist must find the abstract concepts beneath grammars to develop a general method. This method would help select the best possible device or grammar for any language given its corpus. Finally, a linguistic theory must give a satisfactory description of all the levels of language analysis. Examples of these levels include sounds, words, and sentence structures.[45]"Chomsky 1957, pp. 5–6

  • Syntactic Structure by Noam Chomsky 4

    In that excerpt from post 3, we see that Noam Chomsky believed that all languages come from the same original language. Through careful study and analysis through scientific research, we can find the coincidences that all languages share.His work influenced fields beyond just philosophy and science but also has influenced some fields of robotics.

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    Dates and Major works 1

    Chomsky, N. (1970a). Remarks on nominalization. In R. A. Jacobs & P. S. Rosenbaum (Eds.), Readings in English transformational grammar (pp. 184–221). Waltham, MA: Ginn.
    Chomsky, N. (1970b). Deep structure, surface structure, and semantic interpretation. In R. Jakobson & S. Kawamoto (Eds.), Studies in general and Oriental linguistics presented to Shirô Hattori on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday (pp. 52–91). Tokyo: TEX.
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    Dates and Major works 2

    Chomsky, N. (1973). Conditions on transformations. In S. R. Anderson & P. Kiparsky (Eds.), A Festschrift for Morris Halle (pp. 232–286). New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
    Chomsky, N. (1977). On wh-movement. In P. W. Culicover, T. Wasow, & A. Akmajian (Eds.), Formal syntax(pp. 71–132). New York: Academic Press.
    Chomsky, N. (1981). Lectures on government and binding. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Foris.
    Chomsky, N. (1986a). Knowledge of language. New York: Praeger.
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    Dates and Major works 3

    Chomsky, N. (1986b). Barriers. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
    Chomsky, N. (1995). The minimalist program. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
    Chomsky, N. (2000a). Minimalist inquiries: The framework. In R. Martin, D. Michaels, & J. Uriagereka (Eds.), Step by step: Essays on minimalist syntax in honor of Howard Lasnik (pp. 89–155). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
    Chomsky, N. (2000b). New horizons in the study of language and mind. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
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    Dates and Major works 4

    Chomsky, N. (2004). Beyond explanatory adequacy. In A. Belletti (Ed.), The cartography of syntactic structures (Vol. 3, pp. 104–131). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    Chomsky, N. (2005). Three factors in language design. Linguistic Inquiry, 36, 1–22.
    Chomsky, N. (2006). Language and mind, 3d ed. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
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    Dates and Major works 5

    Chomsky, N. (2007). Approaching UG from below. In U. Sauerland & H. M. Gärtner (Eds.), Interfaces + recursion = language? Chomsky’s minimalism and the view from syntax-semantics (pp. 1–29). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
    Chomsky, N. (2009). Cartesian Linguistics, 3d ed. Edited by J. McGilvray. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
    Chomsky, N. (2013). Problems of projection. Lingua, 130, 33–49
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    Dates and Major works 7

    Chomsky, N. (2015). Problems of projection: Extensions. In E. Di Domenico, C. Hamann, & S. Matteini (Eds.), Structures, strategies and beyond: Studies in honour of Adriana Belletti (pp. 1–16). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.