This man's father worked with Hebrew, which inspired him to study under Zellig Harris at the University of Pennsylvania.
This man's father worked with Hebrew, which inspired him to study under Zellig Harris at the University of Pennsylvania. Books like American Power and the New Mandarins illustrated this author's opposition to the Vietnam War, but he gained critical acclaim for his analysis of "surface" and "deep" structures of sentences, and broke with tradition by claiming that grammar and syntax could not be explained as a classically conditioned set of responses. For ten points, name this author of Syntactic Structures, a controversial and famous modern linguist from MIT.
This man's father worked with Hebrew, which inspired him to study under Zellig Harris at the University of Pennsylvania.
Avram Noam {Chomsky}