Instant scholar: How Noam Chomsky’s PhD thesis ‘Transformational Analysis’ reshaped linguistics – The Times of India
In 1955, a young scholar named Noam Chomsky submitted a doctoral thesis to the University of Pennsylvania that would revolutionise the field of linguistics and lay the groundwork for what would become generative grammar. Titled Transformational Analysis, Chomsky’s thesis was a rigorous, mathematically inspired critique of existing approaches to syntax and an ambitious proposal for…