Syntactic Structures: Formal Considerations 60 Years Later

Authors

  • Howard Lasnik University of Maryland

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2017.v13n2a14026

Abstract

Chomsky (1955), The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory (henceforth LSLT), laid out in great detail the formal foundations for a rigorous new way of looking at language scientifcally, transformational generative grammar. This awesome accomplishment was announced to the world in Chomsky (1957), Syntactic Structures (henceforth SS), a publication that revolutionized the feld, or really, created a new feld. Needless to say, syntactic theory has undergone vast changes since then, but certain fundamental ideas, and even a few technical details, persist. In this article, I will briefly discuss some instances of each sort.

 

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2017.v13n2a14026

Published

2017-09-01