Aspects of the theory of syntax / Noam Chomsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chomsky, Noam.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Special technical report (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics) ; no. 11.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics. Special technical report ; no. 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Language.

Medical Subjects:

Language.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x, 251 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Other Title:

Theory of syntax

Theory of syntax.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : M.I.T. Press, 1965.

Summary:

Beginning in the mid-fifties and emanating largely form MIT, and 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 languages, it differs enough in its specific conclusions about the structure and in its specific conclusions about the structure of language to warrant a name, "generative grammar."Various deficiencies have been discovered in the first attempts to formulate a theory of transformational generative grammar and in the descriptive analysis of particular languages that motivated these formulations. At the same time, it has become apparent that these formulations can be extended and deepened. The major purpose of this book is to review these developments and to propose a reformulation of the theory of transformational generative grammar that takes them into account. The emphasis in this study is syntax; semantic and phonological aspects of the language structure are discussed only insofar as they bear on syntactic theory. -- Publisher description.

Contents:

Methodological preliminaries

- Categories and relations in syntactic theory

- Deep structures and grammatical transformations

- Some residual problems.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-245).

ISBN:

0262530074

9780262530071

OCLC:

309976