Generative Anthropology Society

Famous quotes containing the words generative, anthropology and/or society:

    “Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This system of rules can be analyzed into the three major components of a generative grammar: the syntactic, phonological, and semantic components.”
    —Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)

    “I am not a literary man.... I am a man of science, and I am interested in that branch of Anthropology which deals with the history of human speech.”
    —J.A.H. (James Augustus Henry)

    “There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)