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  "Syntax is the study of the principle and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages": First Edition of Noam Chomsky's Syntactic Structures; Lengthily Signed by Him

  CHOMSKY, Noam.

  Syntactic Structures.

  The Hague: Mouton & Company, 1957.

  First edition of one of the most consequential works in the history of modern linguistics and one of the landmark intellectual publications of the twentieth century. Octavo, original wrappers. Lengthily signed by the author on the half-title page with the added words, "Syntax is the study of the principle and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages Noam Chomsky." A quotation drawn from the text itself, transforming the inscription into a statement of the book's central purpose and lending the copy an unusually substantive and personal character. From the collection of linguist Paul Hans Christopherson with his ownership inscription to the front panel. Paul Hans Christophersen (1911–1989) was a Danish-born linguist and philologist whose career carried him across an unusually wide range of institutions — from Cambridge, where he obtained his doctorate in 1943 while serving as a BBC speaker and translator during the Second World War, to professorships at the universities of Copenhagen, Ibadan, Oslo, Ulster, and Qatar — and who was elected to the Norwegian Academy of Sciences in 1956. The centerpiece of his scholarly output is his 1939 dissertation The Articles: A Study of Their Theory and Use in English, produced in part through his collaboration o...

  Price: $15,000.00     Item Number: 151834

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