3 404 chomsky citations date wed 13 may 92 12 48 37 0400 dever pogo isp pitt edu dan everett moreover fact chomsky publishes linguist wrong please correct would interesting nt hurt citation index output nearly asimovian know least two linguists whose output gargantuan chomsky would nice someone could actually sit see real champion taking account long concerned job one anna wierzbicka australian national university one pierre swiggers katholieke universiteit leuven quoted far less often chomsky publish less deal areas reason appear less fashionable pure autonomous syntax influence field seen even level university administration department chairperson wants convince university administrator linguistics natural intellectual ties many departments think would drop names saussure pike rather chomsky agreed mentioning wierzbicka swiggers would nt get half far reason one mentioned worth considering possibility many citations chomsky work could due ignorance said even think cite nobody argue look original source hard work laziness often prevails got distinct impression ignorance scenario indeed likely one see instance manning parker language sciences 1989 paper word order hierarchies reference lightfoot chomsky reply language sciences 1991 basic word order frequencies manning parker contra tomlin pp 7988 date 13 may 1992 23 20 edt robert beard rbeard flint bucknell edu jakobson halle work distinctive features also clearly superceded pre vious work making difficult find structuralist work relevant going today hold semantics clearly feel structuralist work remains extremely relevant going today linguistics maybe guys think semanticists general semanticist particular entirely irrelevant