Noam Chomsky is a leading linguistic scientist and a longtime professor at MIT. His 1957 book Syntactic Structures outlined his theories of transformational generative grammar and made him a prominent ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — Linguist, activist and social critic Noam Chomsky is hospitalized in his wife’s native country of Brazil, recovering from a massive stroke he had a year ago, she confirmed Tuesday.

FEW disciplines are so strongly associated with a single figure: Einstein in physics and Freud in psychology, perhaps. But Noam Chomsky is the man who revolutionised linguistics. Since he wrote ...