The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the 'creativity of language,' that is, the speaker's ability to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
From now on I will consider a language to be a set (finite or infinite) of sentences, each finite in length and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretationand a surface structure… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation of a given… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Surely few if any readers have come across the sentence they are now reading, and someone who had by chance heard or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I haven't seen any claim that Piraha lacks recursion, that is, that there are a finite number of sentences or sentence frames.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A lot of the letters that are coming in - a lot of them are queries or comments - are one sentence… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Orwell says straight, look, in England what comes out in a free country is not very different from this totalitarian monster that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically they are… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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