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Born
Noam Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. (Note: this image is of the Graf Zeppelin flying over Philadelphia circa 1928) -
The logical structure of linguistic theory
Written while Chomsky was studying at Harvard, this is a novel written to combine linguistic theory and philosophy of science. Chomsky, Noam. 1955.
The logical structure of linguistic theory. Manuscript. Published in 1975 by Plenum Press, New York. -
Introduction to the formal analysis of natural languages
Chomsky, Noam, and George A. Miller. 1963. Introduction to the formal analysis of natural languages. In R. Duncan Luce, Robert R. Bush, and Eugene Galanter, eds., Handbook of mathematical psychology, vol. 2, 269-321. New York: Wiley. -
Aspects of the theory of syntax
This work sparked something of a paradigm shift in its approach to the study of language and the mind. Chomsky, Noam. 1965. Aspects of the theory of syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. -
Remarks on nominalization
Chomsky, Noam. 1970. Remarks on nominalization. In Roderick Jacobs and Peter Rosenbaum, eds., Readings in English transformational grammar, 184-221. Waltham, MA: Blaisdell. -
Problems of knowledge and freedom
Chomsky, Noam. 1971. Problems of knowledge and freedom. New York: Pantheon. -
Conditions on transformations
Chomsky, Noam. 1973. Conditions on transformations. In Stephen Anderson and Paul Kiparsky, eds., A Festschrift for Morris Halle, - New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. -
On wh-movement
Chomsky, Noam. 1977. On wh-movement. In Peter Culicover, Thomas Wasow, and Adrian Akmajian, eds., Formal syntax, 71-132. New York: Academic. -
Lectures in Government and Binding
Chomsky, Noam. 1981. Lectures in Government and Binding. (Studies in generative grammar 9.) Dordrecht: Foris. -
Knowledge of language
Chomsky challenged what we know about the human infant mind and the way children understand grammar. He posited that children's mind creates a number of possible grammar structures that are based on their understanding of the language around them and selects the one with the fewest rules as a basis for learning and development.
Chomsky, Noam. 1986. Knowledge of language. New York: Praeger. -
A minimalist program for linguistic theory
Chomsky, Noam. 1993. A minimalist program for linguistic theory. In Kenneth Hale and Samuel Keyser, eds., The view from Building 20, 1-52. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. -
The Minimalist Program
Chomsky, Noam. 1995. The Minimalist Program. (Current studies in linguistics 28.) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. -
Noam Chomsky: Education For Whom and For What