[lit-ideas] Re: Grice & Grice: The Double Act

I wrote
Chomsky's thesis was on the logical structure of linguistic theory: http://alpha-leonis.lids.mit.edu/chomsky/record.php3 

If he's done any work on Hebrew in particular, I'm not aware of it.
Boy, was I wrong. His PhD thesis (from Penn, 1955) was 'Transformational Analysis,' but his MA thesis (also from Penn, 1951) was 'Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew.' In 1954, while doing research at Harvard, he reviewed /Modern Hebrew/, by E. Reiger, for the journal /Language/. 

Apologies to JL. Anything else want explaining?

Robert Paul

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