Some Remarks on the Contribution Made by Noam Chomsky in the Study of Language

摘要

The publication of Syntactic Structures inthe middle of 1950’s by Noam Chomsky, who wasa young American linguist then, aroused a world-wide interest among scientists, especially linguists.His biographer said that his theories, right orwrong, had great vitality and was so nfluentialthat no linguists could overlook them if theywanted to keep pace with the development ofcontemporary linguistics. And at the same time,quite a few people did not quite agree with him.In spite of his own theoretical