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Syntactic Structures is an important work in linguistics by American linguist Noam Chomsky, originally published in 1957. A short monograph of about a hundred pages, it is recognized as one of the most significant and influential linguistic studies of the 20th century.
- Noam Chomsky
- 1957
Syntactic Structures, foundational work of transformational-generative grammar, first published in 1957, by the American linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky. It is widely recognized for its radical reconception of grammar as a mathematically precise system of recursive rules characterizing the.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Chomsky begins Syntactic Structures, then, by aiming to construct a grammar that can be viewed as a device of some sort for producing the sentences of the language under analysis.
Syntactic Structures. Noam Chomsky. Walter de Gruyter, 2002 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 117 pages. Noam Chomsky's first book on syntactic structures is one of the...
Mar 31, 2021 · Syntactic structures. 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 by experts in ...
Jun 27, 2024 · 1 Three aspects of syntactic structure; 2 Identifying constituents and categories; 3 Passives, applicatives, and “Dative Shift” 4 Reflexives; 5 Control; 6 Pragmatic functions: topic and focus; 7 Filler–gap dependencies and relativization; 8 Causative constructions; 9 Serial verbs and related issues; 10 “Quirky case” and subjecthood ...
Generative Grammar, as described by Chomsky, is composed of three parts: a syntactic component, a semantic component, and a phonetic component. These parts are all interrelated and work with each other to produce a grammatically correct sentence that is able to be interpreted.
