Format:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
1. Aufl.
ISBN:
3110218321
Content:
Noam Chomsky is Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. David W. Lightfoot is Professor at Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA. '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
Note:
In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3110172798
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Chomsky, Noam, 1928 - Syntactic structures Berlin [u.a.] : Mouton de Gruyter, 2002 ISBN 3110172798
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
,
Philosophy
Keywords:
Generative Transformationsgrammatik
;
Generative Syntax
DOI:
10.1515/9783110218329
URL:
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Author information:
Chomsky, Noam 1928-
