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Timeline of the 2000s

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Spies Like Us: 10 Famous Names in the Espionage Game

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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7 Deadliest Weapons in History

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Water Fluoridation: Just the Facts

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7 of the World’s Deadliest Plants

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7 of History's Most Notorious Serial Killers

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transformational grammar generative semantics kernel sentence deep structure derivation surface structure nonkernel sentence transformational rule language universal grammar Grimm’s law Verner’s law speculative grammar Prague school structuralism immediate constituent analysis Neogrammarian glossematics tagmemics

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Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky

American linguist