Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, 50th Anniversary Edition

excellent book!

Tremendous use

One of the most important works of Chomsky's. It is preceded by experimental modelling of linguistic knowledge based on rewriting rules and the resulting conclusion of the need for transformations and is followed by new innovating ideas on restricting the power of transformations. We already see the deep thinking that went into the development of the next stage. He discusses the idea of 'singulary transformations' which the individual transformations were, then, composed of and which later developed into Move-alpha, Delete-alpha, etc. He argues very persuasively for a separate 'lexicon' and the kind of information we should expect to find there. Overall, it is rich with seeds that later developed into the ideas comprising the 'principles and parameters' theory. And most importantly, it gives the shrewd and disciplined argumentation, which became a standard of Chomsky's later works and generative grammar in general.

Syntactic Structuresに始まる生成文法の一つの到達点を示した名著。　激しい論敵とのやり取りとの中からより精緻化を目指す生成文法。　今読んでもなお多くのインスピレーションを受ける。

A must have book for the students of English literature .

This text has substance and there is a lot of content to digest.The owner(s) have taken excellent care of this book for the last 50 years.The book is in near perfect condition.[1965 second printing by "The MIT Press"]