Chomskyan
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Adjective
[edit]Chomskyan (comparative more Chomskyan, superlative most Chomskyan)
- Relating to the linguist and activist Noam Chomsky.
- 1989, Ronald Bogue, Deleuze and Guattari, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 107:
- A rhizome, as Deleuze and Guattari explain in Rhizome: an Introduction (1976), is the antithesis of a root-tree structure, or ‘arborescence’, the structural model which has dominated Western thought from Porphyrian trees, to Linnaean taxonomies, to Chomskyan sentence diagrams.
- (linguistics) Of or relating to the theoretical approach introduced by Noam Chomsky, et al., especially transformational grammar.
- 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 155:
- The differences between acceptable constructions like "Have you a book on modern music?" and unacceptable ones like "Read you a book on modern music?" need no Chomskyan signposts for a native speaker, and have very little to do with statistical probability but a lot to do with common sense.
Noun
[edit]Chomskyan (plural Chomskyans)
- (linguistics) A follower or adherent of Chomsky's linguistic theories; a transformational grammarian.