This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Taking Chomsky's Syntactic Structures as a starting point, this paper explores the use of recursive techniques in contemporary linguistic ...

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 ...

Noam Chomsky in New York, 2010 (James Leynse/Corbis Historical/Getty Images) Few American linguists were puzzled when they saw the title of Randy Allen Harris’s book about events in their discipline ...

Although it’s still too early to say for sure, four Israeli scientists may be at the fore of a new revolution in linguistics — or perhaps more accurately, a counterrevolution. The original revolution ...