The purpose of this linguo-stylistic essay is to apply some ideas of transformational generative grammar to the analysis of stylistic devices, such as simile and various types of metaphor. The ...

Noam Chomsky is a leading linguistic scientist and a longtime professor at MIT. His 1957 book Syntactic Structures outlined his theories of transformational generative grammar and made him a prominent ...

Until the 1950s, few dedicated departments existed, but then the combination of Noam Chomsky’s revolutionary theory of generative grammar and Cold War subsidies ushered in an exceptional boom.

At the core of Noam Chomsky's transformational-generative grammar is the idea that a finite set of syntactic rules can generate infinite grammatically correct sentences. For Chomsky, generativity is a ...

Professor Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, often considered the most significant contribution to the field of theoretical linguistics of the 20th century.

Unification-based (or constraint-based) grammars have developed in the last 20 years as alternative models to the main theory of generative grammar. Initially syntax oriented, they now inspire works ...