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Noam Chomsky (91) is an American Linguist, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic and political activist. He has contributed major works in the fields of analytic philosophy and linguistics, and is considered one of the founders of cognitive science. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky
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Begins general studies at the Univ. of Pennsylvania, where he studies philosophy, logic and languages. Later, he will meet Russian linguist Zellig Harris, where his is introduced to theoretical linguistics. He is convinced to major in the subject and writes ' Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew' for his honors thesis
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Publishes 'Systems of Syntactic Analysis', which is highly critical of behavioral currents in linguistics.
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In 1951 Chomsky receives his MA from the University of
Pennsylvania . Between 1951 to 1955, Chomsky becomes a member of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University, where he undertook research in transformational grammer, which became his doctoral thesis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformational_grammar -
Chomsky starts his career as an assistant professor at MIT, spending half of his time on mechanical translation and the other teaching linguistics and philosophy.
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Chomsky publishes his major book called ' Syntactic Structures'. It introduces rules that break down sentences, that then are recombined with new rules called transformations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_Structures
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While a National Science Foundation fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Chomsky created or co-created the universal grammar theory, the generative grammar theory, the Chomsky hierarchy, and the minimalist program.
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Chomsky adds to his publication list on linguistics with 'Aspects of the Theory of Syntax' (1965), Cartesian Linguistics and Theory of Generative Grammar in 1966. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3U6MsdBalg
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Written in 1955, but published in 1975, Logical Structures in Linguistic Theory is a major work depicting natural language syntax.
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Chomsky retires from MIT, but continues his research and seminars in various areas of study as a emeritus of the university.
