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Chomskyan, Chomskian, a. and n.|ˈtʃɒmskɪən|
[f. the name of Noam L. Chomsky (b. 1928), American linguistic scholar + -ian.]
A. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Noam Chomsky or his writings.
1965Amer. Speech XL. 289 Unlike Gleason, Hall has not accepted the Chomskian revolution. 1965C. F. Hockett in Language XLI. 197, I speak of ‘transformations’, in a somewhat Chomskyan way. 1969Language XLV. 323 The Chomskyan linguists take the position that the child comes equipped with very specific principles concerning the nature of syntactic structure. 1969Sunday Times 2 Nov. 51/3 Chomskian generative grammar and the analysis of American imperialism..are both expressions of a mind almost obsessively in pursuit of unification. 1975S. Rogers Children & Lang. i. 1 This, briefly, is not the rather restricted competence in the Chomskian sense. 1977R. Williams Marxism & Lit. i. ii. 43 In Chomskyan linguistics there has been a decisive slip towards a conception of system which emphasizes..individual initiative and creative practice.
B. n. An adherent of Chomsky's views or methods; a transformational grammarian (see transformational a.).
1975I. Robinson New Grammarians' Funeral v. 88 The Chomskyans fall plumb into the old atomism they began by attacking. 1980Logophile III. iv. 54/1 They almost always immediately ask, ‘Are you a Chomskyan?’ 1985Linguistic Anal. XV. iv. 305 (heading) Chomskyans and NP. |