" This (*) linguist originated the theory of transformational-generative grammar in Syntactic Structures and composed the meaningless but grammatically correct sentence "colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
This thinker encouraged American intellectuals to be less subservient to politics in his essay "The Responsibility of Intellectuals." He proposed a gap between the exposure of children to language and the rate and depth at which they learn language, which he called "the poverty of the stimulus." This (*) linguist originated the theory of transformational-generative grammar in Syntactic Structures and composed the meaningless but grammatically correct sentence "colorless green ideas sleep furiously." For 10 points, name this MIT linguist.
This thinker encouraged American intellectuals to be less subservient to politics in his essay "The Responsibility of Intellectuals."
Noam {Chomsky}