chomskyan
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.15 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to the theoretical approach introduced by Noam Chomsky, et al., especially transformational grammar.
noun
A follower or adherent of Chomsky's linguistic theories; a transformational grammarian.
Example Sentences
- "A rhizome, as Deleuze and Guattari explain in Rhizome: an Introduction (1976), is the antithesis of a root-tree structure, or ‘arborescence’, the structural model which has dominated Western thought from Porphyrian trees, to Linnaean taxonomies, to Chomskyan sentence diagrams."
- "The differences between acceptable constructions like "Have you a book on modern music?" and unacceptable ones like "Read you a book on modern music?" need no Chomskyan signposts for a native speaker, and have very little to do with statistical probability but a lot to do with common sense."
- "According to Chomskyan theory, the deep structures are innate components of the brain that enable it to carry out certain formal kinds of operations on strings of symbols."
Etymology
From Chomsky + -an.
Inflected Forms
more Chomskyan (comparative)
most Chomskyan (superlative)
Chomskian (alternative)
Chomskyans (plural)