This man's recent contributions to his academic field include a relationship of "government and binding" that he adapted into his "Minimalist Program." This man studied under Zelig Harris at the University of Pennsylvania and is the namesake of a hierarchy of formal (*) grammars. He also created a sentence that is grammatically correct yet completely meaningless, "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously," in a work about transformational grammar, Syntactic Structures. For 10 points, name this MIT professor of linguistics.
This man's recent contributions to his academic field include a relationship of "government and binding" that he adapted into his "Minimalist Program." This man studied under Zelig Harris at the University of Pennsylvania and is the namesake of a hierarchy of formal (*) grammars. He also created a sentence that is grammatically correct yet completely meaningless, "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously," in a work about transformational grammar, Syntactic Structures. For 10 points, name this MIT professor of linguistics.
This man's recent contributions to his academic field include a relationship of "government and binding" that he adapted into his "Minimalist Program.
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