|
Home
|
Sign up!
|
Projects
|
Seminars
|
Research Notes
|
Today's Lecture
|
About
|
Update Research Note Form
Course:
Research Note Topic:
Research Note Description:
Few people have had a greater impact on 20th century thought as MIT linguist, activist, and political dissident Noam Chomsky. It's often been said that Chomsky is to linguistics what Einstein is to physics. His 1957 treatise, Syntactic Structures, proposed that there is a kind of "universal grammar" underlying all languages and he called it “Transformational Grammar”. According to transformational grammar, every intelligible sentence conforms not only to grammatical rules peculiar to its particular language, but also to "deep structures," a universal grammar underlying all languages and corresponding to an innate capacity of the human brain. That is, if an alien came to Earth this alien would perceive all languages on Earth as pretty much the same, with only superficial variations. Chomsky’s goal in linguistics was to discover and describe this universal grammar.
Biography
At MIT
At MNSU emuseum
On linguistics
Chomsky Archive
A New Twist
Criticisms
At Berkeley
Semi-Daily Journal
Your Password:
Prof. Ashay Dharwadker