Noam Chomsky biography

1. Avram Noam Chomsky
December 7th,
1928

2. Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky is a US
political theorist and activist,
and institute professor of
linguistics at the
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT). Besides his
work in linguistics, Chomsky is
internationally recognized as
one of the most critically
engaged public intellectuals
alive today.Chomsky has
been described as the "father
of modern linguistics” and a
major figure of analytic
philosophy. His work has
influenced fields such as
computer science,
mathematics, and psychology.

3. Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky was born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in
1928. His parents were
Jewish. Her mother was part
of the radical activism back
in1930s. His uncle owned a
newsstand that worked as an
“ intellectual center”. For this
we deduce where his critical
thinking to politics came from.
His father was an eminent
scholar, who taught Hebrew.

4. Noam Chomsky
In 1957, Chomsky published a book called Syntactic
Structures, book that started a revolution in linguistics.
According to his transformational grammar, every intelligible
sentence conforms not only to grammatical rules peculiar to
its particular language, but also to “deep structures,” a
universal grammar underlying all languages and
corresponding to an innate capacity of the human brain.

5. Noam Chomsky
Some of his books

6. Noam Chomsky
Chomsky is reported, in recent surveys, to be the most cited
of all living authors, ranking in fact with Marx, Shakespeare
and the Bible as one of the ten most quoted sources in the
humanities.