- Profession
- Linguist, Computer scientist, Literary critic, Professor
- Worked at
- MIT
- Studied at
- Harvard, Pennsylvania, MIT
- Prizes
- Kyoto Prize (1988), Benjamin Franklin Medal (1999), Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science (1999), BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2018), Guggenheim Fellowship, APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology (1984), Orwell Award (1987), William James Fellow Award (1989), Helmholtz Medal (1996), Carl von Ossietzky Prize (2004), Erich Fromm Prize (2010), Thomas Merton Award (2010), Albertus-Magnus professorate (2011), Sydney Peace Prize (2011), US Peace Prize (2011), Neil and Saras Smith Medal for Linguistics (2014), Seán MacBride Peace Prize (2017), Associate Member of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society, Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, James Joyce Awards
His 1957 Syntactic Structures transformed linguistics.
