This article discusses the derivation of the auxiliary do as a mere emphasiscarrier (They do like it). The solution originally proposed by Chomsky in Syntactic Structures, relying on the presence of a ...

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences category has gone to Noam Chomsky 'for his unparalleled contributions to the study of human language,' in the ...

Noam Chomsky is a leading linguistic scientist and a longtime professor at MIT. His 1957 book Syntactic Structures outlined his theories of transformational generative grammar and made him a prominent ...