This man was the first to propose a framework specified by the specifier, adjunct, and complement rules.
This man was the first to propose a framework specified by the specifier, adjunct, and complement rules. That method is known as X-bar theory. His namesake hierarchy consists of four types ordered by increasing specificity. In one of his works, he concludes that "grammar is autonomous and independent of meaning" and goes on to describe models based on a conception of language as a Markov process. Also in that work, he introduces his theory of syntax called transformational generative grammar and the phrase "colorless green ideas sleep furiously." For ten points, name this author of The Sound Pattern of English and Syntactic Structures who is a professor at MIT.
This man was the first to propose a framework specified by the specifier, adjunct, and complement rules.
Avram Noam Chomsky