Noam Chomsky in New York, 2010 (James Leynse/Corbis Historical/Getty Images) Few American linguists were puzzled when they saw the title of Randy Allen Harris’s book about events in their discipline ...
Noam Chomsky is a leading linguistic scientist and a longtime professor at MIT. His 1957 book Syntactic Structures outlined his theories of transformational generative grammar and made him a prominent ...
FEW disciplines are so strongly associated with a single figure: Einstein in physics and Freud in psychology, perhaps. But Noam Chomsky is the man who revolutionised linguistics. Since he wrote ...