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Course in General Linguistics (French: Cours de linguistique générale) is a book compiled by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye from notes on lectures given by historical-comparative linguist Ferdinand de Saussure at the University of Geneva between 1906 and 1911.
[4] [note 1] Based on lecture notes he had prepared for his students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the mid-1950s, [note 2] Syntactic Structures was Chomsky's first book on linguistics and reflected the contemporary developments in early generative grammar.
The book was based on lectures with this title that de Saussure gave three times in Geneva from 1906 to 1912. Sehechaye and Bally did not themselves take part in these lecture classes, but they used notes from other students. The most important of these students was Albert Riedlinger, who provided them with the most material.
These interpretations and findings are presented consistently throughout the book, with an emphasis on four major registers (functional styles), conversation, fiction, news, and academic prose, occasionally supplemented by examples from two supplementary registers: general prose (non-fiction) and non-conversational speech (e.g. lectures, sermons).
Notes on Linguistics was "a quarterly publication of the International Linguistics Department of the Summer Institute of Linguistics."It originated as a subscription journal, from 1975 through 2001, intended to share practical, theoretical, and even administrative information.
Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (known in linguistic circles simply as Aspects [1]) is a book on linguistics written by American linguist Noam Chomsky, first published in 1965. In Aspects , Chomsky presented a deeper, more extensive reformulation of transformational generative grammar (TGG), a new kind of syntactic theory that he had introduced ...
[3] Ostensibly, it is written for a reader with no background in English grammar or linguistics, though, as Leech notes, "in practice the intensity of detail, including much unfamiliar terminology, is likely to deter the nonspecialist." [6]: 125 It includes a list of sources for further reading but does not cite any sources in the main text.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... English: Subject: linguistics: ... Media type: Print (hardcover) Pages: 519: ISBN: 9781139165570 ...