(00:03) Good afternoon, and welcome. I’m Kim Vannear, the chairman of the MIT faculty. We gather here today to honor two people: James R. Killian Jr. and Professor Noam Chomsky. Professor Chomsky, would you please come to the stage? (02:30) In pre...

Chomsky's linguistics is difficult to access online, but this video aims to explain his linguistic foundation and its overlap with his political theory.  [00:06] Noam Chomsky is known as a public intellectual figure primarily in the realm of polit...

(00:00) Our guest is Professor Noam Chomsky from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a guest lecturer at the University of Washington. Al Page: What determines how language evolves in a particular country? Why, for example, is French so d...