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Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
by CHOMSKY, Noam
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
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About This Item
Octavo, original blue cloth, original unclipped dustwrapper, previous owner signature, some minor wear and chips on the corners and the back cover. FIRST EDITION of Chomsky's elusive first book, "the first concerted approach to investigating the human mind through a systematic study of how people produce and understand sentences… equated with Darwin's theory of evolution and Freud's theory of the unconscious in terms of its importance in the history of ideas" a nice copy in the original unclipped ($7.50) dust jacket. Noam Chomsky is "the father of modern linguistics and remains the field's most influential practitioner… Mr. Chomsky's introduction of his theory of language in 1957 [in his monograph "Syntactic Structures," which he developed into the present book, his first], often called the Chomsky revolution, has been equated with Darwin's theory of evolution and Freud's theory of the unconscious in terms of its importance in the history of ideas: it was the first concerted approach to investigating the human mind through a systematic study of how people produce and understand sentences… Mr. Chomsky was by nature a questioner and, where he deemed necessary, an exploder of received truths. Over the years, this trait became evident in his political work, including his early opposition to the Vietnam War, his outspoken condemnation of United States policy in Central America, East Timor and elsewhere, and his castigation of the mainstream news media for what he describes as complicity with governmental and business interests… Language, Mr. Chomsky came to believe, was rooted not in behavior but in biology, in an inborn set of principles that speakers unconsciously draw on whenever they produce or understand sentences. The goal of linguistics, he argued, should be to reproduce these principles. Since one couldn't go mucking around in people's brains, the linguist would attempt instead to mirror the workings of these inborn principles with a set of abstract, quasi-mathematical rules intended to generate the range of possible sentences in a given language in other words, a generative grammar" (New York Times, Dec. 5, 1998).
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- Bookseller
- Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 166
- Title
- Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
- Author
- CHOMSKY, Noam
- Format/Binding
- Publisher's cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The M.I.T. Press
- Place of Publication
- Massachusetts
- Date Published
- 1965
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Linguistics, Science, Philosophy
- Size
- 8vo
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