Who is Noam Chomsky? Why is he so important in linguistics? what did he do in linguistics?

Question

His theories, books on linguistics.. what are you think about that man in terms of the study of language? your comments are so important for me and waiting for them.

First of all, thanks eveybody who answers me. But the point is that what is your comment about Chomsky? a lot of information about him in internet of course. But I would like you to make your own comments about Chomsky regarding his linguistics works like.

Answer 1

Noam Chomsky is simply the most influential linguist of the twentieth century. Indeed, he changed the whole way that linguists work with language. In the 18th century, Sir William Jones created linguistics as a science. In the 19th century, Jakob Grimm moved linguistics from antiquarianism to a predictive science. In the 20th century, Noam Chomsky moved linguistics from a physical realm to a cognitive realm. Before Chomsky we simply described what we saw, but didn't always see the connections or understand what we were seeing. After Chomsky, we had a mechanism for understanding language at a level deeper than ever before possible. There is just simply no other way to do linguistics than Chomsky's way. While other theories have emerged since Chomsky's initial work, they all build on his approach in one way or another (although some of the proponents of alternate theories might be loathe to admit that). No one does linguistics in a pre-Chomskyan mold anymore. It's just not possible.

Answer 2

Avram Noam Chomsky, Ph.D (born December 7, 1928) is the Institute Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, considered to be one of the most significant contributions to the field of theoretical linguistics made in the 20th century. He also helped spark the cognitive revolution in psychology through his review of B.F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior, in which he challenged the behaviorist approach to the study of mind and language dominant in the 1950s. His naturalistic approach to the study of language has also affected the philosophy of language and mind (see Harman, Fodor). He is also credited with the establishment of the Chomsky–Schützenberger hierarchy, a classification of formal languages in terms of their generative power.

Answer 3

I don't know about Noam Chomsky and linguistics. The most recent book I read of his is called Hegemony or Survival, the American Quest for Dominance; he is known to me to be a writer, speaker and professor of modern American political administrations.

Answer 4

Noam Chomsky is a rich yuppie who likes to represent himself as one o' de people. He lives VERY comfortaly in a lily white neighborhood. This does not prevent hirsute women from working themselves into orgasmic frenzy listening to his treacherous blather.

That's who NoamChomsky is

Answer 5

Why don't you try www.wikipedia.com? You'll find accurate information there .