Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky (1928), US linguist and political writer. He became professor of modern languages and linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1961) and visited Britain to lecture at Oxford in 1969. His linguistic theories are set’ out in such works as Syntactic Structures (1957). Chomsky’s ideas on grammar have had a most important influence on the study of language. A leading opponent of US involvement in the Vietnam War, he has continued his critique of US foreign policy in such books as Chronicles of Dissent (1992).
