Noam Chomsky
Videos
Avram Noam Chomsky is an American intellectual, philosopher, linguist, political activist, and social critic. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in ana
Chomsky in 2017
The Great Dome at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Chomsky began working at MIT in 1955.
Portrait of Chomsky, c. 1961
Portrait of Noam Chomsky, c. 1969
Syntactic Structures
Videos
Syntactic Structures is a seminal work in linguistics by American linguist Noam Chomsky, originally published in 1957. A short monograph of about a hundred pages, it is recognized as one of the most s
Noam Chomsky
…he earned his doctorate in 1955. That year he began teaching at MIT, and in 1957 emerged as a significant figure in linguistics with his landmark work Syntactic Structures, which played a major role in remodeling the study of language. From 1958 to 1959 Chomsky was a National Science Foundation fellow at the Institute for…
First edition cover
Noam Chomsky, the author of Syntactic Structures (1977 photo)
The grammar model discussed in Noam Chomsky's Syntactic Structures (1957)