This man proposed his theory of "binding" in a series of lectures in Pisa, and he wrote the essay "The Responsibility of Intellectuals."
This man proposed his theory of "binding" in a series of lectures in Pisa, and he wrote the essay "The Responsibility of Intellectuals." This thinker also proposed a gap between the exposure of children to language and the rate and depth to which they learn language, which he called "the poverty of the stimulus." He also proposed that the abstract "deep structure" of sentences could relate to their "surface structure." He presented the idea of transformational-generative grammar in Syntactic Structures and composed the grammatically correct but meaningless sentence "colorless green ideas sleep furiously." For 10 points, name this MIT linguist.
This man proposed his theory of "binding" in a series of lectures in Pisa, and he wrote the essay "The Responsibility of Intellectuals."
Noam Chomsky