John Lyons’ Chomsky: A Review Essay

Abstract

This paper is based on the account of Lyons (1970) on the exploit of one of the greatest linguistic scholars, Noam Chomsky, in the book titled Chomsky. Lyons critically examined Chomsky’s contribution and influence in the grammatical theories of Linguistics. He traced the development of Linguistics from the evolution of the Bloomfieldian school of linguistics, the famous and foremost American school of linguistics. Apart from the fact that the school serves as a springboard of some sort for early linguists before and after the Second World War, it is the same school that produced Chomsky, unarguably, the most notable figure in theoretical linguistics of our time.