Time Line

1928 ~ Birth in Philadelphia, PA 

1949 ~ Creation of undergraduate thesis

1951 ~ Completion of thesis, Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew

1957 ~ Published the novel Syntactic Structures

1957 ~ Made associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1960 ~ Given title of full professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1975 ~ Became institute professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1990 ~ Published On Nature, Use and Acquisition of Language