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==Academic work==
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Aarsleff's writings on Wilhelm von Humboldt caused controversy as they drew attention to the fact that Humboldt was heavily influenced by French philosophers and linguists, which was denied by established German scholarship.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Gipper|first1=H.|title=Schwierigkeiten beim Schreiben der Wahrheit in der Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft: zum Streit um das Verhältnis Wilhelm von Humboldts zu Herder|journal=Logos Semantikos|date=1981|volume=1|pages=101–115}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Oesterreicher|first1=W.|title=Wem gehört Humboldt? Zum Einfluß der französischen Aufklärung auf die Sprachphilosophie der deutschen Romantik|journal=Logos Semantikos|date=1981|volume=1|pages=117–135}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Trabant|first1=J.|title=Der Gallische Herkules|date=2002|publisher=Francke Verlag|location=Tübingen}}</ref> His writings on the French-Swiss linguist [[Ferdinand de Saussure]] caused similar controversy, as he argued that
In 1970, Aarsleff published an article “The history of linguistics and Professor Chomsky” in the high-profile linguistic periodical ''[[Language (journal)|Language]]''. This article drew much attention as it was an attack on [[Noam Chomsky]]'s much publicized work of the preceding years in the history of linguistics, contending that it was based on deficient and partisan scholarship. Although major specialists in the field were of the same opinion,<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Miel|first1=J.|title=Pascal, Port-Royal, and Cartesian linguistics|journal=Journal of the History of Ideas|date=1969|volume=30|pages=261–271}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Salmon|first1=V.|title=Review of Cartesian Linguistics|journal=Journal of Linguistics|date=1969|volume=5|pages=165–187}}</ref> the fierce and vilifying reactions by Chomsky and his followers<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bracken|first1=H.|title=Mind and Language. Essays on Descartes and Chomsky|date=1984|publisher=Foris|location=Dordrecht|pages=xi|quote=The kind of scholarship manifested by Aarsleff differs in quantity but not in quality from that recently displayed by Trevor-Roper in identifying the Hitler ‘diaries’}}</ref> made Aarsleff a controversial figure among Chomskyan theoretical linguists.<ref>{{cite book|author1=C. Hamans|author2=P. Seuren|editor1-last=Kibbee|editor1-first=Douglas A.|title=Chomskyan (R)evolutions|publisher=Benjamins|location=Amsterdam/Philadelphia|pages=377–394|chapter=Chomsky in search of a pedigree}}</ref>
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