home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
The Epic Interactive Encyclopedia 1998
/
Epic Interactive Encyclopedia, The - 1998 Edition (1998)(Epic Marketing).iso
/
C
/
Chomsky,_Noam
/
INFOTEXT
< prev
Wrap
Text File
|
1992-09-02
|
682b
|
18 lines
1928- . US professor of linguistics. He
proposed a theory of transformational
generative grammar, which attracted
widespread interest because of the claims it
made about the relationship between language
and the mind and the universality of an
underlying language structure. He is also a
leading voice against the imperialist
tendencies of the US government. Chomsky
maintained that a fundamental distinction can
be made between knowledge and behaviour and
that the focus of scientific enquiry should
be on knowledge. In order to define and
describe linguistic knowledge, he posited a
set of abstract principles of grammar that
seem to be universal and may have a
biological basis.