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Also Known As Avram Noam Chomsky
Born December 7, 1928 (age 95) • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania
Notable Works “Aspects of the Theory of Syntax” • “Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies” • “Syntactic Structures” • “The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory”
Subjects Of Study generative grammar • innate idea • language • philosophy of language • rationalism • transformational grammar

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