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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

Source: Language and Freedom, lecture, Jan. 1970, delivered at Loyola University, Chicago (published in For Reasons of State, 1973).
-- Noam Chomsky, (Dec 7 1928-____), US linguist, political activitist; He founded transformational grammar and Cartesian theory which influenced the development of modern linguistics.

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