When1: 1957
When2: 2000
Who: Noam Chomsky [Chomsky, Noam]
What: linguist
Where: USA
works\ Syntactic Structures [1957]; Review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior [1959]; Aspects of a Theory of Syntax [1965]; Language and Mind [1972]; Reflections on Language [1975]; Rules and Representations [1980]; Knowledge of Language [1986]; Language and the Problems of Knowledge [1988]; New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind [2000]
Detail: He lived 1928 to ?, studied unconscious and innate language structures, and developed transformational grammar to explain how brain makes language structures. Newborn brain has innate linguistic rules {universal grammar, Chomsky}. Learning a particular language, which has words, sets limited-range linguistic parameters. Expressed language {E-language} depends on internal language {I-language}. Grammars assign structures {logical form} to sentences. Grammars can generate just language sentences {observationally adequate grammar}, give some structure to all sentences {descriptively adequate grammar}, or give structure used by speakers to all sentences {explanatorily adequate grammar}.
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