Syntactic Structures. Ownership stamp on upper cover. Signed by Chomsky on half-title

Chomsky, Noam

Published by Mouton, The Hague, 1957

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Chomsky, Noam (1928- ). Syntactic structures. 116pp. S-Gravenhague: Mouton & Co., 1957. 227 x 150 mm. Original printed wrappers, spine darkened, slight edgewear and finger-soiling. Very good. Ownership stamp of Dr. Knut Bergslane, professor at the University of Oslo, on front wrapper. Signed by Chomsky on the half-title. First Edition of Chomsky s classic text on the underlying structures of natural language. Expanding on ideas first presented in his paper, "Three models for the description of language" (1956), Chomsky s work develops two key concepts: "Chomsky s hierarchy" of syntactic forms, which has been widely applied in the construction of artificial computer languages; and most importantly his concept of transformational grammar. The cognitive scientist David Marr, who developed a general account of information-processing systems, described Chomsky s theory of transformation grammar as a top-level computational theory, in the sense that it deals with the goal of a computation, why it is appropriate, and the logic of the strategy used to carry it out (Anderson and Rosenfeld, Neurocomputing: Foundations of Research, pp. 470 72). Chomsky s work has had profound influence in the fields of linguistics, philosophy, psychology, and artificial intelligence. Origins of Cyberspace 532. . Seller Inventory # 42206

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Title: Syntactic Structures. Ownership stamp on ...

Publisher: Mouton, The Hague

Publication Date: 1957

Binding: Soft cover

Edition: 1st Edition