Chomsky did quite a lot of things in linguistics. This is about whether or not there is a universal grammar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_grammar htt

Chomsky did quite a lot of things in linguistics. This is about whether or not there is a universal grammar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_grammar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_grammar There is a fairly interesting read from Steven Pinker: "The language instinct" about this topic.