He championed the idea of transformational-generative grammar and coined the phrase "colorless green ideas sleep furiously" in his book Syntactic Structures.
Every context-free grammar can be translated into an equivalent one of this man's namesake normal forms. This author of Language and Mind and a student of Zelig Harris put forth the Minimalist Program, and stated that the languages able to be recognized by a Turing machine outline the Type-0 tier of his namesake hierarchy. He championed the idea of transformational-generative grammar and coined the phrase "colorless green ideas sleep furiously" in his book Syntactic Structures. For 10 points, name this MIT linguist.
Every context-free grammar can be translated into an equivalent one of this man's namesake normal forms.
Avram Noam Chomsky