Sophisticated AI chatbots are challenging traditional linguistics, dominated by Chomsky's view of language as a uniquely human, genetically endowed trait. Structuralist theories, however, see language as an impersonal system where meaning arises from word relationships, a view more compatible with AI output. Scholars like Leif Weatherby are revisiting structuralism to understand AI's language generation. #AILinguistics #Chomsky #Structuralism #Foucault #LanguageAI #AIRevolution