The Sound Pattern of English, which he wrote with Morris Halle, attempts to describe the phonological processes of English, but it was his 1957 book, Syntactic Structures, which proposed the idea of generative grammars.
He studied under Zellig Harris at the University of Pennsylvania and his own theories derive from Harris' notion of kernel and nonkernel sentences. The Sound Pattern of English, which he wrote with Morris Halle, attempts to describe the phonological processes of English, but it was his 1957 book, Syntactic Structures, which proposed the idea of generative grammars. FTP, who is this MIT linguist?
He studied under Zellig Harris at the University of Pennsylvania and his own theories derive from Harris' notion of kernel and nonkernel sentences.
Avram Noam {Chomsky }(accept “Noam!” if shouted in a Cheers-like greeting)