Chomskyan

English

Alternative forms

• Chomskian

Etymology

Chomsky +‎ -an

Adjective

Chomskyan (comparative more Chomskyan, superlative most Chomskyan)

1. Relating to the linguist and activist Noam Chomsky.
   • 1989, Ronald Bogue, Deleuze and Guattari, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 107:

     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.

2. (linguistics) Following the theoretical approach introduced by Noam Chomsky, et al.

See also

• transformational grammar