Question

What was Chomsky's criticism of structural linguists?

Answer 1

Answer: He believed that structural linguists limited themselves by only giving a few examples of regular constructions.

Explanation:

Avram Noam Chomsky or sometimes called ''the father of modern linguistics'' is a philosopher, historian, social critic, political activist and linguist and he is also the author of more than hundred books that he wrote on topics that he was mostly studying and those are politics, linguistics, mass media and more.

• The correct statement that is found in your question is the one that he showed and published in his major work which is ''Syntactic Structures'' where he wanted to show the readers and scientist that the set of limited rules are only generating the grammatical sentences of a particular language and that the number of those grammatical sentences is infinite.

Answer 2

Answer:

He believed they went too deeply into structure, simply finding systems of elements without considering sentence structure.

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