July 2021 Catalogue

64 J u l y 2 0 2 1 “The Father Of Modern Linguistics” 69. CHOMSKY, Noam. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1965. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket. $4200. Click for more info First edition of Chomsky’s elusive first book—a very nice copy in the original 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 humanmind through a systematic study of howpeople produce and understand sentences” ( New York Times ). Owner signature. Book fine, dust jacket with a few short closed tears and tiny chip to rear upper corner, near-fine. A lovely copy of this scarce title. Science