Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky
Chomsky in 2015
Born	Avram Noam Chomsky (1928-12-07) December 7, 1928 (age 88) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Fields	Linguistics, analytic philosophy, cognitive science, intellectual history, political criticism
Institutions	MIT (1955–present) Institute for Advanced Study (1958–1959)
Alma mater	University of Pennsylvania (B.A., 1949; M.A., 1951; Ph.D., 1955) Harvard Society of Fellows (1951–1955)
Thesis	Transformational Analysis (1955)
Doctoral students	Mark Baker, Ray C. Dougherty, C.-T. James Huang, Ray Jackendoff, George Lakoff, Howard Lasnik, Robert Lees, James McCawley, Barbara Partee, John R. Ross, and many others
Known for	"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" Axiom of categoricity Bought priesthood Cartesian linguistics Chomsky Normal Form Chomsky hierarchy Cognitive closure (philosophy) Context-free grammar Context-sensitive grammar Corporate media Deep structure and surface structure Deterministic context-free grammar Digital infinity E-Language Elite media Empty category principle Extended Projection Principle Formal democracy Formal grammar Generative grammar Government and binding I-Language Immediate constituent analysis Innateness hypothesis Intellectual responsibility Language acquisition device Levels of adequacy Linguistic competence Linguistic performance Logical Form (linguistics) M-command Markedness Media manipulation Mentalism (philosophy) Merge (linguistics) Minimalist program Non-configurational language Parasitic gap Phonology Phrase structure grammar Phrase structure rules Plato's Problem Poverty of the stimulus Principles and parameters Projection Principle Propaganda model Psychological nativism Recursion in language Scansion Second-language acquisition Self-censorship Specified subject condition Speech community Statistical language acquisition Structure preservation principle Subjacency Symbol (formal) Tensed-S condition Terminal and nonterminal symbols Trace erasure principle Transformational grammar Transformational syntax Universal grammar X-bar theory
Influences	J. L. Austin, Mikhail Bakunin,Alex Carey,C. West Churchman, William Chomsky, René Descartes,John Dewey, Nelson Goodman, Morris Halle, Zellig Harris, Hebrew literature,Wilhelm von Humboldt,David Hume,Roman Jakobson, Immanuel Kant,Martin Luther King, Jr.,Karl Korsch, Peter Kropotkin,Karl Liebknecht, John Locke, Rosa Luxemburg, Dwight Macdonald,Karl Marx, John Stuart Mill, George Armitage Miller, George Orwell, W. V. O. Quine, Pāṇini, Anton Pannekoek, Jean Piaget, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Hilary Putnam,David Ricardo, Rudolf Rocker, Bertrand Russell, Russian literature,Diego Abad de Santillán, Ferdinand de Saussure, Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, Adam Smith, Leon Trotsky, Alan Turing, Ludwig Wittgenstein
Influenced	Michael Albert, Julian Assange, John Backus,Derek Bickerton, Bono,Julian C. Boyd, Jean Bricmont, Hugo Chávez, Daniel Dennett,Daniel Everett, Clinton Fernandes, Norman Finkelstein, Robert Fisk, Jerry Fodor, Amy Goodman, Stephen Jay Gould,Glenn Greenwald, Gilbert Harman, Marc Hauser, Christopher Hitchens,Norbert Hornstein, Niels Kaj Jerne, Naomi Klein,Donald Knuth,Peter Ludlow, Colin McGinn,Michael Moore,John Nichols, Ann Nocenti,John Pilger,Steven Pinker,Harold Pinter,Tanya Reinhart, Arundhati Roy, Edward Said,John Searle,Neil Smith, Aaron Swartz,Crispin Wright, and many others
Notable awards	Guggenheim Fellowship (1971) APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology (1984) Orwell Award (1987, 1989) Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences (1988) Helmholtz Medal (1996) Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science (1999) Sydney Peace Prize (2011)
Spouse	Carol Doris Schatz (1949–2008; her death) Valeria Wasserman (2014–present)
Children	Aviva (b. 1957) Diane (b. 1960) Harry (b. 1967)
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Avram Noam Chomsky (US ⁱ/æˈvrɑːm ˈnoʊm ˈtʃɒmski/ a-VRAHM nohm CHOM-skee; born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes described as "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy, and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he has worked since 1955, and is the author of over 100 books on topics such as linguistics, war, politics, and mass media. Ideologically, he aligns with anarcho-syndicalism and libertarian socialism.