- Noam Chomsky is 83 years old
- Born: 7 December 1928
- Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Best known as:
Creator of the theory of generative grammar
4 good links
- The Noam Chomsky Archive
Fine collection of Chomskiana, mainly regarding his political positions
- Noam Chomsky Home Page
His own sparse site at MIT, with his address and a list of publications
- Noam Chomsky Resources
Nicely presented list of online resources, with notes
- Encarta: Noam Chomsky
The encyclopedia takes a shot at explaining Chomsky's theories in a few short paragraphs
Noam Chomsky Biography
Noam Chomsky is a leading linguistic scientist and a longtime professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His 1957 book Syntactic Structures outlined his theories of transformational generative grammar and made him a prominent and controversial figure in the field. Chomsky is also known as a political activist suspicious of big media, big business and big government. His books include Manufacturing Consent (1988) and Propaganda and the Public Mind (2001). He is sometimes compared with another scholarly activist, Bertrand Russell.
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Chomsky was the inspiration for the name given the sign-language chimp Nim Chimpsky.
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