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In 1775 the British Parliament declared that the State of Massachusetts was in rebellion. By a strange quirk of history, that same state has become the center of a new rebellion, with the Boston Tea Party replaced by the M.I.T. Party. The Father of this new revolution is Noam Chomsky, and the manifesto a slim volume entitled Syntactic St?uctures, which appeared in 1957. This book raised the study of syntax to new heights (some critics have suggested the opposite direction), and has provided the impetus for countless articles, books, and doctoral dissertations in the twenty years since its publication. To understand something of Chomsky's concept of grammar, let us begin in a rather conventional fashion. Consider the sentence: (1) The colonists captured Ticonderoga. To each of the words in this sentence we can assign traditional word class labels (lexical categories) as follows : Det N V N (2) The colonists captured Ticonderoga where Det = Determiner, N = Noun, and V = Verb. Furthermore, we can provide this sentence with a rather traditional constituent analysis, which can then be displayed in the form of a |
