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A classic book by Noam Chomsky on linguistics, published in 1957. It introduced the concept of transformational generative grammar, which uses symbols and rules to describe sentence structures and meanings.
- Noam Chomsky
- 1957
Learn about the foundational work of transformational-generative grammar by Noam Chomsky, published in 1957. Explore the concepts of phrase structure, transformations, and morphophonemics, and see examples and diagrams.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Syntactic Structures: Arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in English, including subjects, verbs, objects, complements, and adverbials. Basic Syntactic Structures: Declarative, imperative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentences, each serving different communicative purposes.
A reprint of Noam Chomsky's 1957 book that laid the foundations of modern linguistics and cognitive science. The introduction by David Lightfoot traces the historical and theoretical impact of Chomsky's work and its evolution.
This book presents a comprehensive theory of language based on axiom systems, theorems and transformations. It is one of the first and most influential works in the field of generative grammar and syntactic analysis.
- illustrated
- Noam Chomsky
- Walter de Gruyter, 2002
A textbook on English syntax and syntactic principles by Andrew Radford, a renowned expert in the field. It covers topics such as grammar, structure, adjuncts, null constituents, head movement, and more, with exercises, references, and online resources.
Mar 31, 2021 · Item Size. 246.5M. 117 pages : 23 cm. Noam Chomsky's first 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 understood ...
