More than any other thinker in the postwar era, Noam Chomsky embodied Karl Marx’s favorite dictum: “nothing human is alien to me.”
  • sparkle@lemm.eeCymraeg
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    5 months ago

    Chomsky’s work undeniably transformed (cognitive) linguistics, but a large portion of Chomskyan linguistics is heavily debated/controversial.

    His universal grammar, although debated, at least contributed a lot to Sapir-Whorf linguistics generally being recognized as wrong, which is nice.