【Baidu百科より内容紹介】《句法結構》従広義(跟語義学相対)和狭義(跟音位学及詞法相対)両個方面論述句法結構,旨在建立一種公式化的一般語言結構理論。該書従理論上説明了主動句、被動句之間的交?関係,提出了一些新問題。従中可以了解作者的語言理論、対語法的看法以及転換-生成語法建立的過程,従而知道転換ー生成語法産生的淵源和理論基礎。 【Googleより内容紹介】Noam Chomsky's first book on syntactic structures is one of the first serious attempts on the part of a linguist to construct within the tradition of scientific theory-construction a comprehensive theory of language which may be understood in the same sense that a chemical, biological theory is understood by experts in those fields. It is not a mere reorganization of the data into a new kind of library catalogue, nor another specualtive philosophy about the nature of man and language, but rather a rigorus explication of our intuitions about our language in terms of an overt axiom system, the theorems derivable from it, explicit results which may be compared with new data and other intuitions, all based plainly on an overt theory of the internal structure of languages; and it may well provide an opportunity for the application of explicity measures of simplicity to decide preference of one form over another form of grammar. 【岩波文庫福井直樹・辻子美保子共訳「統辞構造論」より内容紹介】 生成文法による言語研究の「革命」開始を告げる記念碑的著作.句構造や変換構造などの抽象的な言語学的レベル,言語の一般形式に関する理論,文法の単純性の概念などが,人間言語に対する深く透徹した洞察を与えることを立証する.併録の論考および訳者解説では本書の知的背景を詳細に説明し,その後の展開も概観する.