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Noam Chomsky 12/07/1928 - PRESENT
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Syntactic Structures
Noam Chomsky attempts to tie in language with biological and chemical theory. It is an explanation of our intuition of our language through overt axiom system. -
Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
This book goes more in depth into the syntactic theory in his first book, transformational generative grammar. -
The Sound Pattern of English
Co-published with Morris Halle, it gives a great overview of the subject of sound in English. It is specifically influential in the field of phonology and analysis of the English language. -
The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory
The third attachment of his linguistic theories goes more in depth into the basic principles of the transformational generative grammar theory and explains correlations with the general structure of adequate theory.