Tag: Noam Chomsky

Three books of the year 2013 and some books of the century 1900-2013

by Dominik Lukeš · 2013-11-17

I have been asked (as every year) to nominate three books of the year for Lidové Noviny (a Czech paper I contribute to occasionally). This is always a tough choice for me and some years I don't even bother responding. This is because I don't tend to read books 'of the moment' and range widely…

The complexities of simple: What simple language proponents should know about linguistics [updated]

by Dominik Lukeš · 2012-09-28

Update Part of this post was incorporated into an article I wrote with Brian Kelly and Alistair McNaught that appeared in the December issue of Ariadne . As part of that work and feedback from Alistair and Brian, I expanded the final section from a simple list of bullets into a more detailed research programme…

Why Chomsky doesn't count as a gifted linguist

by Dominik Lukeš · 2010-08-01

Somebody commented on the Language Log saying "of course [...] Chomsky was a massively gifted linguist" http://j.mp/9Q98Bx and for some reason, to use a Czech idiom, the handle of the jar repeatedly used to fetch water just fell off. Meaning, I've had enough. I think we should stop thinking of Chomsky as a gifted linguist…