Language and the Problems of Knowledge

Noam Chomsky holds a position in the history of linguistics that few scholars can match. He initiated a new direction in the study of this subject since publishing his book "Syntactic Structures" in 1957, thereby creating what amounted to a departure from the methodologies that linguistics had been following and the goals it had set for itself. The goal was no longer to describe the linguistic material collected by the researcher, but rather to interpret this material in a way aimed at discovering what lies behind the phenomenon represented by this linguistic material. This goal was the driving force behind all the changes that linguistics underwent since 1957. Each proposed model gets closer to that goal, as it paves the way for proposing another, more precise and efficient model.

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