I’ve read that most if not all of his linguistic theories regarding real natural languages have been either superseded or discarded. His biggest impact has been on computer languages even though that was not its intention.
“I’ve read that most if not all of his linguistic theories regarding real natural languages have been either superseded or discarded.”
That could be. I only knew about his linguistic theories through my friends and they have both passed away.
What I gathered is that Chomsky argued that language is innate to the human mind. That the ability to understand and process language is genetic.
Their high regard for Chomsky amused me because they were diametrically opposite Chomsky in a lot of other ways.