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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Professor Noam Chomsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)Publisher: Walter de Gruyter Imprint: Walter de Gruyter ISBN: 9786613398635ISBN 10: 6613398632 Pages: 117 Publication Date: 24 September 2009 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Electronic book text Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsChomsky'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 Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |