- Noam Chomsky :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky


An important character in linguistics :)

Noam Chomsky, then aged twentry-nice, a teaher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, published a book called Syntactic Structures.

Chomsky is the most influential linguist of the century.

-Creativity: the ability of human beings to produce and comprehend an indefinite number of novel utterances. Chomsky points outthat anyone who knows a language must have internalized a set of rules which specify the sequences permitted in their languages.

Chomsky therefore uses the word 'grammar' interchangeably to mean, on the one hand, a person's internalized rules, and on the other hand, a linguist's guess as to these rules.