Noam Chomsky

The Universal Chomsky

As part of the collaborative project 'The other side of Linguistics' about some different theories and linguists with the rest of our classmates, we confined a short power point presentation about the linguistic theories by Chomsky:

In order to understand the triviality of Chomsky's vision of linguistic theories, we went through the five main previous theories (Contrastive Analysis; Error Analysis; Interlanguage Theory; Morpheme Order Studies; Monitor Model) and explained which were their wrong points, or which served as inspiration for Chomsky.

Then, we went on with the main points of his Universal Grammar, and finally explained the consequences it had and the criticism it received.

Even though it was much criticised, every new theory contributes positively to the linguistic discipline since it causes more research into that particular aspect. Therefore, we are highly thankful to his work in linguistics.