Chomskyan

American  

[chom-skee-uhn] / ˈtʃɒm ski ən /

adjective

1. of or relating to Noam Chomsky or his linguistic theories, especially to transformational-generative grammar.

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Etymology

Origin of Chomskyan

Chomsky + -an

Example Sentences

Some languages — the Amazonian Pirahã, for in­­stance — seem to get by without Chomskyan recursion.

From Salon

So far, so survivalist/Swiss Family Robinson/Republican nightmare; but no, Ben is actually a Chomskyan libertarian leftist, and he puts no less emphasis upon his children’s intellectual development, educating them with everything he says and does.

From The Guardian

Since writing the book, I have moved further from the Chomskyan notion that language is uniquely human to finding the basis of mental time travel even in the ability of rats to “replay” and perhaps “preplay” trajectories in spatial environments.

From Scientific American

You don’t have to solve the Chomskyan problem of how language and meaning are structured. 

From Forbes

This prompted him and a group of colleagues to start cognitive linguistics, which contrary to Chomskyan theory and the entire mind as a computer paradigm, held that “semantics arose from the nature of the body.”

From Scientific American