Chomskyan

Definitions

1. Relating to the linguist and activist Noam Chomsky.
2. Of or relating to the theoretical approach introduced by Noam Chomsky, et al., especially transformational grammar.

Examples

“A rhizome, as Deleuze and Guattari explain⟳ in Rhizome: an Introduction (1976), is the antithesis of a root-tree structure⟳, or ‘arborescence’, the structural model⟳ which has dominated Western thought from Porphyrian trees, to Linnaean taxonomies, to Chomskyan sentence diagrams.”

“The differences between acceptable constructions like⟳ "Have⟳ you a book on modern music?" and unacceptable ones like⟳ "Read⟳ you a book on modern music?" need⟳ no Chomskyan signposts for a native speaker, and have⟳ very little to do with statistical probability but a lot to do with common sense⟳.”

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