New York: Valeria Wasserman Chomsky, wife of renowned American intellectual Noam Chomsky, has dismissed rumours about the death of the famed linguist and activist. She dismissed media reports on Chomsky's death, stating, "It's false. He is well."

Chomsky (95), had been hospitalised in Brazil while recovering from a stroke he suffered a year ago. It had left him with difficulty in speaking and moving the right side of his body. He was transported on an air ambulance with two nurses once he was able to travel more easily from the United States. He was also visited daily by a neurologist, a speech therapist, and a lung specialist.

According to multiple reports, he was discharged from the hospital in Sao Paolo on Tuesday and will continue an undisclosed treatment at home.

On Tuesday, Chomsky was trending on micro-blogging platform X after fake reports of his death gained attention. Some publications, such as Jacobin and The New Statesman, even published obituaries for Chomsky. Jacobin later revised its headline from "We Remember Noam Chomsky" to "Let's Celebrate Noam Chomsky". The New Statesman removed its essay by former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis altogether.

Chomsky, known for his revolutionary theory on structured language and his activism on various issues, has been residing in Brazil since 2015. He gained recognition in the 1950s and has been an outspoken activist on issues including US intervention in Vietnam, labour rights, and the environment. Chomsky has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for decades and later joined the College of Social & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Arizona in Tucson in 2017.

He revolutionized the field of linguistics with his influential 1957 book, “Syntactic Structures,” in which he argued that humans are not merely language learners, but are born with an innate capacity that explains how they can produce and comprehend sentences they have never encountered before.

(with inputs from agencies)