I don’t know how I got as far as I did into this without realizing that Chomsky’s work had conditioned much of what I understood about language. Now that I have some references, (Chomsky, 1998, Chomsky, 2006, Chomsky, 2016, and Chomsky, 2016b), I can see that the nature of language and its intimacy with thinking and consciousness contribute significantly to my work. See also Language.

Just google Noam Chomsky to be buried in his ideas, opinions and works.