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Chomskian

Chomskian is the alternative spelling of Chomskyan.

Meaning of Chomskyan

Adjective

Chomskyan (comparative more Chomskyan, superlative most Chomskyan)

  1. Relating to the linguist and activist Noam Chomsky.
    • 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.1989, Ronald Bogue, Deleuze and Guattari, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 107
  2. Of or relating to the theoretical approach introduced by Noam Chomsky, et al., especially transformational grammar.
    • 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.1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 155

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Forms of Chomskian

comparativemore Chomskian
superlativemost Chomskian

Questions about Chomskian

What is Chomskian the alternative spelling of?
Chomskian is the alternative spelling of Chomskyan.

Words near Chomskian in the dictionary

  1. chompings
  2. chomps
  3. chomps at the bit
  4. chomps down on
  5. chompy
  6. Chomskian
  7. Chomsky
  8. Chomsky hierarchies
  9. Chomsky hierarchy
  10. Chomsky Normal Form
  11. Chomskyan

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