Chomsky`s work has fundamentally affected views of what of linguistics is or should be, reopened issues many linguistics had long thought were settled.
Yet many of his ideas are conservative in that thay derieve from traditional philosophy, grammar, and logic. The most "revolutionary" aspect lies in his claims about how these ideas apply to language and linguistics.
A skillful public debater, Chomsky intensifies the forensic and polemical aspects of the discipline by using theorical arguments about "the nature of language" to fortify his positions against competitors. He foregrounds poinst of contention even where he implicity agrees with or borrows from his asversaries, and uses a highly confident rethoric for his "tentative" views and proposals. His argumentation oscillates from intuitive reasoning and philosophical speculations on "the mind" , over to technical points drawn from formal language theory and from such sciences as biology and neurology. Due in part to this diversity of sources, his terminology and notation take on a strategic plurality of meanings.
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