Question

Which linguist’s work led to the era of generative grammar?

• A. Leonard Bloomfield
• B. Edward Sapir
• C. Roman Jakobson
• D. Noam Chomsky

Answer 1

Answer:

D. Noam Chomsky

Generative Grammar (GG) is the label for the linguistic theory developed by the American scholar Noam Chomsky (b. 1928) and his followers; a GG, in Chomsky's own word, is “a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to sentences”