Noam Chomsky: advisors and students

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Noam Chomsky

Also known as Noam . Auteur du texte Chomsky (OpenAlex)

American linguist and activist (born 1928)born 1928

Supervised 93 doctoral students (96 students at any level) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata lists 23 doctoral students, names Nelson Goodman, Roman Jakobson, and Zellig S. Harris as teachers, and lists 2 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 11 other registers.

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Students96

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Pritty Patel-Grosz “(Anti-)locality at the interfaces”
2012 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Tue H. Trinh “Edges and linearization”
2011 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Hsiao-hung Iris Wu “Generalized inversion and theory of agree”
2008 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Ken Hiraiwa “Dimensions of symmetry in syntax : agreement and clausal architecture”
2005 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Julie Anne Legate “Warlpiri : theoretical implications”
2002 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Ora Matushansky “Movement of degree/degree of movement”
2002 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Jonathan W. Nissenbaum “Investigations of covert phrase movement”
2000 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Idan Landau “Elements of control”
1999 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Vaijayanthi M. Sarma “Case, agreement and word order : issues in the syntax and acquisition of Taml”
1999 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Daniel J. Fox “Economy and semantic interpretation : a study of scope and variable binding”
1998 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Ulrich Sauerland “On the making and meaning of chains”
1998 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Hooi Ling Soh “Object scrambling in Chinese”
1998 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Susanne Wurmbrand “Infinitives”
1998 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Hiroyuki Ura “Multiple feature-checking : a theory of grammatical function splitting”
1996 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Maria do Pilar Pereira Barbosa “Null subjects”
1995 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Jonathan David Bobaljik “Morphosyntax : the syntax of verbal inflection”
1995 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Masatoshi Koizumi “Phrase structure in minimalist syntax”
1995 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Hubert Truckenbrodt “Phonological phrases--their relation to syntax, focus, and prominance”
1995 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Seth Aaron Minkoff “How some so-called "thematic roles" that select animate arguments are generated, and how these roles inform control”
1994 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Wei-Tien Tsai “On economizing the theory of A-bar dependencies”
1994 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Toshifusa Oka “Minimalism in syntatic derivation”
1993 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Hiroaki Tada “A/A-bar partition in derivation”
1993 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Michael Vincent Hegarty “Adjunct extraction and chain configurations”
1992 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Miori Kubo “Japanese syntactic structures and their constructional meanings”
1992 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Lisa L. S Cheng “On the typology of wh-questions”
1991 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Hamida Demirdash “Resumptive chains in restrictive relatives, appositives, and dislocation structures”
1991 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Paul S Law “Effects of head-movement on theories of subjacency and proper government”
1991 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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James Douglas Saddy “Investigations into grammatical knowledge”
1991 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Anoop Kumar Mahajan “The A/A-bar distinction and movement theory”
1990 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Hyon Sook Choe “Restructuring parameters and complex predicates--a transformational approach”
1988 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Anne Rochette “Semnantic and syntactic aspects of romance sentential complementation”
1988 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Amy S Weinberg “Locality principles in syntax and in parsing”
1988 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Marguerite Browning “Null operator constructions”
1987 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Gabriel Mark Aurel Segal “In deference to reference”
1987 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Ur Shlonsky “Null and displaced subjects”
1987 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Isabelle Haïk “The syntax of operators”
1986 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Kyle Brian Johnson “A case for movement”
1986 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Barry Schein “Event logic and the interpretation of plurals”
1986 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Mark Cleland Baker “Incorporation, a theory of grammatical function changing”
1985 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Diane Massam “Case theory and the Projection Principle”
1985 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Mamoru Saito “Some asymmetries in Japanese and their theoretical implications”
1985 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Judy Anne Shepard-Kegl “Locative relations in American Sign Language word formation, syntax and discourse”
1985 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Nigel Alexander John Fabb “Syntactic affixation”
1984 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Maria Rita Manzini “Restructuring and reanalysis”
1984 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Mario M Montalbetti “After binding : on the interpretation of pronouns”
1984 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Dominique Sportiche “Structural invariance and symmetry”
1984 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Lisa deMena Travis “Parameters and effects of word order variation”
1984 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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David Michael Pesetsky “Paths and categories”
1983 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Joseph Aoun “The formal nature of anaphoric relations”
1982 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Robert Cregar Berwick “Locality principles and the acquisition of syntactic knowledge”
1982 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Denis Bouchard “On the content of empty categories”
1982 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Kenneth Safir “Syntactic chains and the definiteness effect”
1982 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Maria Luisa Zubizarreta “On the relationship of the lexicon to syntax”
1982 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis recordstated by Wikidata
Alec Marantz “On the nature of grammatical relations”
1981 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Hagit Borer “Parametric variation in clitic constructions”
1981 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Luigi Burzio “Intransitive verbs and Italian auxiliaries”
1981 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Jan Edwards “A cross-linguistic study of Broca's aphasia”
1981 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Karuvannur Puthanveettil Mohanan “Grammatical relations and anaphora in Malayalam”
1981 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Yukio Otsu “Universal grammar and syntactic development in children : toward a theory of syntactic development”
1981 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Timothy Angus Stowell “Origins of phrase structure”
1981 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Leland Maurice George “Analogical generalization in natural language syntax.”
1980 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Osvaldo Jaeggli “On some phonologically-null elements in syntax”
1980 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Marcia Christine Linebarger “The grammar of negative polarity”
1980 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Todd Sjoblom “Coordination.”
1980 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Mark Reuben Baltin “Toward a theory of movement rules.”
1978 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Robert Carlen May “The grammar of quantification.”
1978 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Joel Rotenberg “The syntax of phonology.”
1978 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Craig Lee Thiersch “Topics in German syntax.”
1978 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Alberto Mario Rivas “A theory of clitics.”
1977 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Tanya Miriam Reinhart “The syntactic domain of anaphora”
1976 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Ivan A. Sag “Deletion and logical form.”
1976 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Ivonne Aline Bordelois “The grammar of Spanish causative complements.”
1974 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Robert Wilson Fiengo “Semantic conditions of surface structure.”
1974 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Gary L. Milsark “Existential sentences in English”
1974 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Edwin Samuel Williams “Rule ordering in syntax.”
1974 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Deirdre Susan Moir Wilson “Presuppositions and non-truth-conditional semantics.”
1974 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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John S Bowers “Grammatical relations.”
1973 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Nomi Erteschik-Shir “On the nature of island constraints.”
1973 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Francis Roger Higgins “The pseudo-cleft construction in English”
1973 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Joan W Bresnan “Theory of complementation in English syntax.”
1972 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Lyle Jenkins “Modality in English syntax.”
1972 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Peter W Culicover “Syntactic and semantic investigations.”
1971 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Joseph Embley Emonds “Root and structure-preserving transformations.”
1970 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Janet Dean Fodor “The linguistic description of opaque contents.”
1970 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Ray Cordell Dougherty “A transformational grammar of coordinate conjoined structures.”
1969 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Ray S Jackendoff “Some rules of semantic interpretation for English.”
1969 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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George Dudley IV Bedell “Kokugaku grammatical theory.”
1968 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Paul Gipson Chapin “On the syntax of word-derivation in English”
1967 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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John Robert Ross “Constraints on variables in syntax.”
1967 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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James Bruce Fraser “An examination of the verb-particle construction in English.”
1965 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Leonard Harold Haines “Generation and recognition of formal languages.”
1965 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Barbara Corey Hall “Subject and object in modern English.”
1965 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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S.-Y Kuroda “Generative grammatical studies in the Japanese language.”
1965 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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James David McCawley “The accentual system of standard Japanese.”
1965 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Peter Steven Rosenbaum “The grammar of English predicate complement constructions.”
1965 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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D. Terence Langendoen “Structural descriptions for sentences generated by non-self-embedding constituent structure grammars”
1961 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · bachelor's

Students on Wikidata23

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S.-Y. Kuroda
born 1934
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James D. McCawley
born 1938
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John R. Ross
born 1938
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Barbara Partee
born 1940
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Janet Dean Fodor
born 1942
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Tanya Reinhart
born 1943
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Howard Lasnik
born 1945
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Jan Koster
born 1945
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Joan W. Bresnan
born 1945
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Ray Jackendoff
born 1945
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Tom Wasow
born 1945
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Ivan Sag
born 1949
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Robert C. Berwick
born 1951
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Mario Montalbetti
born 1953
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David Pesetsky
born 1957
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Mark Baker
born 1959
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Idan Landau
born 1967
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Charles Yang
born 1973
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Hamida Demirdache
born 1974
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Amy Sara Weinberg
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Anoop K. Mahajan
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Ken Hiraiwa
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Leonard Harold Haines

Teachers and mentors3

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a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Nelson Goodman
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Roman Jakobson
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Zellig S. Harris

Taught2

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Jonathan Bobaljik
born 1969
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Sumit Karn

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The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 195 people: 106 cited by thesis records, 90 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career7

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until 1945
Central High School
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1945 to 1949
University of Pennsylvania
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1949 to 1951
University of Pennsylvania
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1951 to 1955
Harvard University
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1955 to 2002
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Oak Lane Day School
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James A. McGilvray
33 shared works
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Robert C. Berwick
29 shared works
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David Barsamian
25 shared works
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John Junkerman
22 shared works
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Edward S. Herman
21 shared works
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Takei Masakazu
16 shared works
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Charles Derber
15 shared works
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Suren Moodliar
14 shared works
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Neil V. Smith
13 shared works
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Gilbert Achcar
13 shared works

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At a glance

known as: philosopher, linguist, political writer, university teacher, psychologist, anthropologist, human rights defender, educator, media critic, writer, opinion journalist, computer scientist, historian, philologist
fields: linguistics, philosophy of language, psychology, generative grammar, communication theory, cognitive science, philosophy of mind, ethics, politics
degrees: Doctor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, 1955
awards: Orwell Award, 1987, Guggenheim Fellowship, Helmholtz Medal, 1996, Thomas Merton Award, 2010, Sretenje Order, James Joyce Awards, Erich Fromm Prize, 2010, William James Fellow Award, 1989, Albertus-Magnus professorate, 2011, Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences, 1988, APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, 1984, honorary doctor of the University of St Andrews, honorary doctorate from Columbia University, honorary doctor of Harvard University, honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge, honorary doctor of the University of Uppsala, Honorary doctor of the University of Bologna, honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2003, honorary doctor of the University of Athens, Honorary doctorate from University of Toronto, Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America, Honorary Doctorate of University of Buenos Aires, honorary doctorate from the McGill University, honorary doctor of the Peking University, 2007, BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, 2018, Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, honorary doctor of Loyola University Chicago, honorary doctorate of the Autonomous University of Madrid, honorary doctor of the University of Chile, Associate Member of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, honorary doctor of the University of Calcutta, Honorary doctorate from university of Florence, honorary doctor of Amherst College, Albertus-Magnus professorate, 2011, Carl von Ossietzky Prize, 2004, Seán MacBride Peace Prize, 2017, US Peace Prize, 2011, Sydney Peace Prize, 2011, Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society, Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science, 1999, Neil and Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics, 2014
member of: German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, from 1974, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, from 2003, National Academy of Sciences, from 1972, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, from 1963, Royal Society of Canada, American Philosophical Society, from 2004, American Association for the Advancement of Science, from 1966, Academia Europaea, from 1995
notable works: Syntactic Structures, World Orders Old and New, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, Manufacturing Consent, The Chomsky Reader, Class Warfare, Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies, Ilusionistas, Deterring Democracy, Making the Future, Conditions on Transformations, Middle East Illusions, Knowledge of Language, Cartesian Linguistics, The Sound Pattern of English, 9-11, Interventions, Imperial Ambitions, Occupy, Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship, The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many, Gaza in Crisis, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, American Power and the New Mandarins, Propaganda and the Public Mind, The Fateful Triangle, Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance, Lectures on Government and Binding, The Political Economy of Human Rights, Profit over People, Failed States, Counter-Revolutionary Violence: Bloodbaths in Fact & Propaganda, Why Only Us: Language and Evolution, What Kind of Creatures Are We?, Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs, Chomsky hierarchy, Requiem for the American Dream, How the World Works
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@misc{academicancestry_Q9049,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Noam Chomsky: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q9049},
  note = {read on 2026-10-31}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 31). Noam Chomsky: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-31]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q9049