This man's major work included a chapter on "The Explanatory Power" and also discussed the "dummy carrier" before analyzing the lack of meaning in the assertion that "the fighting stopped."
This man's major work included a chapter on "The Explanatory Power" and also discussed the "dummy carrier" before analyzing the lack of meaning in the assertion that "the fighting stopped." He used three examples regarding a "book on modern music" before mentioning that "the child seems sleeping" in the chapter "The Independence of Grammar," which also introduces the sentence "colorless green ideas sleep furiously." For 10 points, name this man whose Syntactic Structures laid out the theory of transformational-generative grammar, and who is both a noted MIT linguist and a leftist political commentator.
This man's major work included a chapter on "The Explanatory Power" and also discussed the "dummy carrier" before analyzing the lack of meaning in the assertion that "the fighting stopped."
Noam Chomsky