Chomskyan

adjective

Chom·​skyan

variants or less commonly Chomskian

ˈchäm(p)skēən 

-ȯm-, 

-kyən

: of, relating to, based on, or being the linguistic theories of Noam Chomsky

Word History

Etymology

Avram Noam Chomsky, born 1928 American linguist + English -an

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