Question

Who is known as the father of modern linguistics?

• A. Noam Chomsky
• B. Ferdinand de Saussure
• C. Leonard Bloomfield
• D. Edward Sapir

Answer 1

Answer:

A. Noam Chomsky

• Noam Chomsky is known as the father of modern linguistics.

• His groundbreaking work in the 1950s revolutionized the field, particularly with his theory of generative grammar, which emphasizes the innate structures of language in the human mind.

• His book Syntactic Structures (1957) introduced the concept of transformational grammar, challenging behaviorist views of language acquisition.