Prolific essayist, philosopher, linguist, cognitive scientist, communication theorist and political activist, Noam ChomskyBorn on December 7, 1928 (in Philadelphia, from a Jewish family originally from Eastern Europe), caused rumors of his alleged disappearance. Rumors – which soon went around the world – denied by his wife Valeria Wassermanwho married the scholar in 2014.
The American linguist is hospitalized in a hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazilafter being hit by a stroke.
Let’s talk about the major linguist living (he is the founder of generative-transformational grammar) as well as one of the reference points of the international radical left.
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As we have told in this study on his works and his battles, Chomsky, a staunch supporter of freedom of expression at any cost, is not only a world-renowned linguist: his studies and works range in the field of cognitive sciencesin the theory of communication and politics. His are, among others, wise as The factory of consensus And Who are the masters of the world.
THE BOOKS, PUBLISHED IN ITALY BY PONTE ALLE GRAZIE
Among the latest volumes published in Italy by Ponte alle Grazie we remember Minutes counted (with R. Pollin, 2020), Fight or decline (with E. Feroz, 2021), Precipice (with CJ Polychroniou, 2021), Why Ukraine (with CJ Polychroniou, 2022), The consequences of capitalism (with M. Waterstone, 2022), Illegitimate powers (with CJ Polychroniou, 2023), e Together to save the planet (2023).
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Noam Chomsky is, among other things, the author of texts such as The structure of the syntax (1957), Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (1964), Cartesian Linguistics. A chapter in the history of rationalist thought (1966), Transformational generative grammar (1966), Language and knowledge problems (1987), collected in Italy within the volumes Linguistic essays (Bollati Boringhieri, 1970), texts that revolutionized linguistic studies.
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