Chomsky

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    The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
    —Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)

    Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
    —Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)

    Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This system of rules can be analyzed into the three major components of a generative grammar: the syntactic, phonological, and semantic components.
    —Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)