Syntactic Structures

Noam Chomsky

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2002

Syntactic Structures

Noam Chomsky
With contributions by: David W. Lightfoot

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110218329

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Author / Editor information

Noam Chomsky is Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

David W. Lightfoot is Professor at Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA.

Reviews

"Chomsky's book on syntactic structures is one of the first serious attempts on the part of a linguist to construct within the tradition of scientific theory-construction a comprehensive theory of language which may be understood in the same sense that a chemical, biological theory is ordinarily understood by experts in those fields. It is not a mere reorganization of the data into a new kind of library catalog, nor another speculative philosophy about the nature of Man and Language, but rather a rigorous explication of our intuitions about our language in terms of an overt axiom system, the theorems derivable from it, explicit results which may be compared with new data and other intuitions, all based plainly on an overt theory of the internal structure of languages; and it may well provide an opportunity for the application of explicit measures of simplicity to decide preference of one form over another form of grammar."
Robert B. Lees in : 'Language'

"I had already decided I wanted to be a linguist when I discovered this book. But it is unlikely that I would have stayed in the field without it. It has been the single most inspiring book on linguistics in my whole career."
HenkvanRiemsdijk

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
1. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
2. The Independence of Grammar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
3. An elementary Linguistic Theory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
4. Phrase Structure Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
5. Limitations of Phrase Structure Description Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
6. On the Goals of Linguistic Theory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
7. Some Transformations in English Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
8. The explanatory Power of Linguistic Theory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
9. Syntax and Semantics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
10. Summary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
11. Appendix I. Notations and Terminology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
12. Appendix II. Examples of English Phrase Structure and transformational Rules Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Edition: 2nd ed. 2002
Pages
- Front matter: 18
- Main content: 117

eBook

Published: September 24, 2009
ISBN: 9783110218329

Paperback

Published: November 19, 2002
ISBN: 9783110172799