Chomskyan

English Alternative forms en Chomskian Etymology en :af Chomsky -an + 1 Pronunciation en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Chomskyan.wav Southern England Adjective Relating to the linguist and activist Noam Chomsky. en Ronald Bogue Deleuze and Guattari 1989 Psychology Press 107 https://books.google.com/books?id=YeiHUoRVINEC&pg=PA107&dq=%22rhizome%22&hl=en&cd=20&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22rhizome%22&f=false 978-0-415-02443-3 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. en linguistics Of or relating to the theoretical approach introduced by Noam Chomsky, et al., especially transformational grammar. en 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. 155 The English Language Robert Burchfield Robert Burchfield Oxford University Press Oxford 1985 276 According to Chomskyan theory, the deep structures are innate components of the brain that enable it to carry out certain formal kinds of operations on strings of symbols. Derived terms en Chomskyanism Translations relating to Noam Chomsky French: fr chomskyen Noun en linguistics A follower or adherent of Chomsky's linguistic theories; a transformational grammarian. See also en transformational grammar en eponyms