In this man's Pisa Lectures, he discussed the theta criterion, which requires a one-to-one correspondence between arguments and theta-roles such as Agent and Patient, and developed the "principles-and-parameters" approach behind his Government-Binding Theory.
In this man's Pisa Lectures, he discussed the theta criterion, which requires a one-to-one correspondence between arguments and theta-roles such as Agent and Patient, and developed the "principles-and-parameters" approach behind his Government-Binding Theory. With Morris Halle, he co-wrote The (*) Sound Patterns of English in 1968, and his first work, Syntactic Structures, introduces his concept of transformational-generative grammar and includes the sentence "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously". A proponent of "universal grammar" and a well-known author of anarchist and anti-capitalist texts, for 10 points, name this MIT professor, a founding figure of modern linguistics.
In this man's Pisa Lectures, he discussed the theta criterion, which requires a one-to-one correspondence between arguments and theta-roles such as Agent and Patient, and developed the "principles-and-parameters" approach behind his Government-Binding Theory.
Noam (Avram) {Chomsky}