The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory

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The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory

First edition
Author	Noam Chomsky
Language	English
Subject	Natural language syntax
Publisher	Plenum
Publication date	1975 (written 1955)
Media type	Print
Pages	592
ISBN	9780306307607
Preceded by	Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew
Followed by	Syntactic Structures

The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory or LSLT is a major work in linguistics by American linguist Noam Chomsky. It was written in 1955 and published in 1975. In 1955, Chomsky submitted a part of this book as his PhD thesis titled Transformational Analysis, setting out his ideas on transformational grammar; he was awarded a Ph.D. for it, and it was privately distributed among specialists on microfilm. Chomsky offered the manuscript of LSLT for publication, but MIT's Technology Press refused to publish it. It was published by Plenum in 1975. It was republished in 1985 by U. of Chicago Press and in 2010 by Springer.