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This was actually not Chomsky's first book on this topic. That was Syntactic Structures (1957).
by formerlinguist 11y ago
This was actually not Chomsky's first book on this topic. That was Syntactic Structures (1957).
- simonebrunozzi 11y agoCorrect. That book, over time, changed a lot of things.
- bdchauvette 11y agoNeither the title here nor the article itself claim it to be his first book, only an incredibly influential one. The article even agrees with you: > §3 sets out a radically revised structure for transformational grammars, quietly abandoning the notion of “kernel sentence” from Chomsky’s first book, Syntactic Structures, and introducing the term “deep structure,” which in a sense replaces it.