Episode description

Noam Chomsky is one of the world's foremost thinkers, and his impact on linguistics is incalculable. Yet many people are only familiar with his political activism. What are his linguistic ideas, and why have they been so tenacious? 

To answer that question, Daniel had a delightful chat with generative syntactician and Chomsky fan Katie Martin.

We're honoured to have a chat with linguist and Uyghur language activist Abduweli Ayup, recipient of the 2024 Language Rights Defenders Award from the Global Coalition for Language Rights.

Timestamps

• Intros: 0:41
• News: 10:10
• Interview with Abduweli Ayup: 37:36
• Related or Not: 57:50
• Interview with Katie Martin: 1:06:56
• Words of the Week: 1:59:29
• The Reads: 2:15:53
• Outtakes: 2:22:21