Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is a extreme socialist linguist who is best known for his writings on politics. He is an institute professor & professor of linguistics (Emeritus) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or MIT[1].
He has always been extremely critical of America and Israel and sympathizes with Palestinians and terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah. He has also been criticized for anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial[2].
Linguistic Works
Generative Grammar
Noam Chomsky advocates the view that the human brain has innate ability to generate gramatical sentences, thus all utterances which is deemed sensical to the speaker is necessarily grammatical, and the only role the liguist should play is to decipher its grammatical structure. This view has been criticized by many linguists as nihilistic in that it rejects the notion of ungrammatical sentences.
universal grammar
Noam Chomsky also proposed the theory that a kind of universal grammar, a grammar that underlies all human languages, is hard-wired in the human brain. Thus all human languages are fundamentally the same, with only superficial differences. This theory of universal grammar has been criticized by linguist Geoffrey Sampson as being not falsifiable, arguing that the grammatical generalizations made are simply observations about existing languages and not predictions about what is possible in a language.
Further Readings
- The Chomsky Hoax by Paul Bogdanor
- An Intellectual Crook by Oliver Kamm
- Chomsky's New Blood Libel by Alan Dershowitz