Noam Chomsky poses in his office at MIT.(Ulf Andersen/Getty Images) At the age of 87, and with his seminal work 'Syntactic Structures' about to turn 60, Noam Chomsky is still thinking about ...

Noam Chomsky is a professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work in linguistics has earned him the Kyoto Prize and the Helmholtz Medal. He writes and lectures widely ...

Location of Lagado in Balnibarbi (original map, Pt III, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels). Wikicommons. Public domain. Though the discussion of Noam Chomsky’s linguistic theory has been conducted ...

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 ...

I’m sitting in the sun on one of the first mild days of the spring, talking with a modern-day flintknapper about the origins of human language. His name is Neill Bovaird, and he’s neither an ...