Aspects of the theory of syntax

Noam Chomsky

MIT Press, 1965 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 251 pages

Beginning in the middle fifties and emanating largely from M.I.T., an approach was developed to linguistic theory and to the study of the structure of particular languages that diverges in many respects from modern linguistics. Although this approach is connected to the traditional study of language, it differs enough in its general objectives and in specific conclusions about the sturcutre of language to warrant a name, "generative grammar, " or more specfically, "transformational generative grammar."

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Contents

• Methodological Preliminaries: 3
• Categories and Relations in Syntactic Theory: 63
• Deep Structures and Grammatical: 128
• Some Residual Problems: 148
• Notes: 193
• Bibliography: 237
• Index: 247

About the author

Noam Avram Chomsky was born December 7, 1928, in Philadelphia. Son of a Russian emigrant who was a Hebrew scholar, Chomsky was exposed at a young age to the study of language and principles of grammar. During the 1940s, he began developing socialist political leanings through his encounters with the New York Jewish intellectual community. Chomsky received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied linguistics, mathematics, and philosophy. He conducted much of his research at Harvard University. In 1955, he began teaching at MIT, eventually holding the Ferrari P. Ward Chair of Modern Language and Linguistics. Today Chomsky is highly regarded as both one of America's most prominent linguists and most notorious social critics and political activists. His academic reputation began with the publication of Syntactic Structures in 1957. Within a decade, he became known as an outspoken intellectual opponent of the Vietnam War. Chomsky has written many books on the links between language, human creativity, and intelligence, including Language and Mind (1967) and Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use (1985). He also has written dozens of political analyses, including Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (1988), Chronicles of Dissent (1992), and The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many (1993).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Aspects of the theory of syntax; Volume 11 of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory o; Issue 11 of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics. Special technical report no. 11; Volume 11 of Special Technical Report, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research Laboratory of Electronic; Volume 11 of Special technical report of the Research Laboratory of Electronics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mass Research Laboratory of Electronics Cambridge; Volume 11 of Special technical report of the Research Laboratory of Electronics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Research Laboratory of Electronics; Volume 119 of The MIT Press Paperback Series
• Author: Noam Chomsky
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: MIT Press, 1965
• ISBN: 0262530074, 9780262530071
• Length: 251 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Grammar & Punctuation; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General; Philosophy / General