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Noam
Chomsky, American linguist, writer, teacher, and political activist
Noam Chomsky is considered the founder of transformational-generative linguistic
analysis, which revolutionized the field of linguistics. This system of
linguistics treats grammar as a theory of language—that is, Chomsky believes
that in addition to the rules of grammar specific to individual languages,
there are universal rules common to all languages that indicate that the
ability to form and understand language is |
