Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, First Edition (14 results)

Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Good-to-fair condition overall. Heavy pencil markings throughout text. Binding sturdy, but some pages jut outward slightly from text block. Price reflects condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Near fine text. Pages clean and unmarked. VG dust jacket is wrapped in a clear mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Association copy. First edition, first printing in supplied first issue dust jacket, unclipped with small tear in top of front panel, slightly edge-worn and spine-sunned, Very Good overall. x, 251 pp. Original navy cloth with gilt spine lettering. A few small stains in text. Pioneering Dutch linguist P.A. Verburg's copy with his stamp on front endpaper; his marginal notes, underlines, and small diagrams are throughout text in pen and pencil. Verburg (1905-1989) examined the history of linguistics in 1952 with his Taal En Functionaliteit, translated most recently in English in 1998 as Language and Its Functions. Chomsky's work along similar lines with Aspects and the following year's Cartesian Linguistics would garner much more attention worldwide, influencing the fields of linguistics and philosophy for decades. Verburg's marginal impressions in this copy should provide insight of an important, if oft-neglected predecessor's impressions of Chomsky's breakthrough work.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Dust jacket missing. First edition. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Prior owner's notations throughout. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 251 pages. Ex-university library book, light wear to the blue boards; lightly yellowed pages; a sound binding; good overall. No jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Languages & Linguistics; Inventory No: 213000.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. blue cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket unclipped, 251 pp first edition dj torn with small piece missing top of spine, wear at corners and edges, top edge lightly soiled, covers lightly worn Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Octavo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 251pp. Dark Blue Boards. gilt lettering on the spine. Previous owner's stamp, tape residue on the front pastedown, and light wear to the spine edges. The text block is clean, unmarked. Price-clipped green jacket has a hint of wear on the spine edges. in fresh mylar sleeve. A seminal book on linguistics, in Aspects, Chomsky presents a deeper, more extensive reformulation of transformational generative grammar (TGG), a new kind of syntactic theory that he had introduced in the 1950s with the publication of his first book, Syntactic Structures. Aspects is widely considered to be the foundational document and a proper book-length articulation of Chomskyan theoretical framework of linguistics. Size: Octavo. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Rubbing, edge wear and a small closed tear to otherwise bright dust jacket with $7.50 price intact; slightest wear to book; signed by Noam Chomsky on a book plate that is attached to the front free end paper; pictures available upon request. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. Cambridge : M.I.T. Press, 1965. 1st edition, 1st printing. 8vo. x,251pp. Illus. Good book. Good dust jacket. Some writing inside. (language, theory, grammar, syntax) Inquire if you need further information.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. Original blue cloth with silver lettering at spine bright, x, 251 pages, illustrations. From the collection of noted medieval scholar, linguist, and polyglot James W. Marchand, his name stamp front end page. Fine in a Very Good Plus dust jacket, small rubs at edges, light soiling, 1/2" closed tear bottom edge rear panel, the spine showing none of the common fading from green to blue. First Edition, First Printing of Chomsky's pioneering first book, which helped to earn him the distinction of "the father of modern linguistics". A quite handsome copy of an elusive and important book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 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 questionerand, where he deemed necessary, an exploderof 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 languagein other words, a generative grammar" (New York Times, Dec. 5, 1998).

First edition of the landmark work of generative grammar, the source of the "standard theory" of language acquisition, and among the most influential linguistic texts of the 20th century. Octavo. Diagrams in the text. Original blue cloth, spine lettered and with publisher's device in gilt. With dust jacket. Light rubbing, contents crisp and fresh; minor rubbing, creasing, and toning to unclipped jacket: a near-fine copy in like jacket.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Noam Chomsky on the front free endpaper and inscribed "Best Wishes." x, 251 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with light rubbing to extremities and bumping to corners, dust-soiling and scattered foxing to textblock edges. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear and soiling, sunning to spine, and moderate foxing. A signed copy of a significant early book by the pioneering linguist and anti-war activist.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's or better unclipped dust jacket with original navy cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good with light foxing to edges and endsheets, musty odor to pages. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with sunning to spine, light foxing to flaps; longish tear to rear flap fold repaired at the verso with tape. A nice copy of a significant early book by the distinguished linguist and radical political thinker, which signaled a revolution within the field of linguistics.