Publications

Linguistic Books

• Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory. MIT Humanities Library. Microfilm. 1955. New York and London: Plenum Press, 1975; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
• Syntactic Structures. The Hague: Mouton, 1957. Reprint. Berlin and New York, 1985; Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2002. Translated as Structures Syntaxiques. France: Editions du Seuil, 1994.
• Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1965. (Excerpted as Saussure Jakobson Hjelmslev Chomsky. Textos Selecionados, edited by V. Civita. Sao Paulo: Abril S.A. Cultural, 1985; Chapter 1 reprinted in Critical Theory Since 1965, edited by H. Adams and L. Searle, 40-58. Tallahassee: Florida State University Press, 1986; Excerpted as “La grammaire comme realite mentale.” In La Psychologie, edited by Jean-Francis Le Ny, 364-365. Paris: Larousse, 1995.)
• Cartesian Linguistics. New York: Harper and Row, 1965. Reprint. Cartesian Linguistics. A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1986; Christchurch, New Zealand: Cybereditions Corporation, 2002.
• with Morris Halle. Sound Pattern of English. New York: Harper and Row, 1968. Reprint. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 1991.
• Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1970. (Reprinted as Thesen zur Theorie der generativen Grammatick. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Athenaum Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co., 1974.)
• Language and Mind. New York: Harcourt Brace & World, Inc., 1968. (Based on the Beckman lectures delivered at the University of California at Berkeley, January 1967. Reprint. Enlarged edition. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972; reprinted as El Lenguaje y el Entendimiento. Barcelona: Planeta-Agostini, 1992.)
• Studies on Semantics in Generative Grammar. The Hague: Mouton, 1972. Reprint. Berlin and New York, 1980.
• Reflections on Language. New York: Pantheon Books, 1975. (Reprinted as Reflexionen über die Sprache. Frankfurt/Maine: Suhrkamp, 1977; reprinted as Reflexiones sobre el lenguaje.Barcelona: Planeta-Agnostini, 1975; reprinted in On Language: Chomsky’s Classsic Works ”Language and Responsibility” and ”Reflections on Language” in One Volume. New York: The New Press, 1998; reprinted in Pragmatics: Critical Concept. vol. 5, 21-36. London: Routledge, 1998.
• Rules and Representations. New York: Columbia University Press and Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publisher, 1980. (Excerpted in The Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (1980): 1-61, 1980.) Reprint. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.
• Lectures on Government and Binding: The Pisa Lectures. Holland: Foris Publications, 1981. Reprint. 7th Edition. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1993.
• Language and the Study of Mind. Tokyo: Sansyusya Publishing Co. Ltd., 1982. (Reprint of 1966 Japanese lectures, “Linguistics and the Science of Man” and “Language and the Study of Mind.”)
• Some Concepts and Consequences of the Theory of Government and Binding. Linguistic Inquiry Monograph Six. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1982.
• Noam Chomsky on The Generative Enterprise, A discussion with Riny Hyybregts and Henk van Riemsdijk. Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1982. (Reprinted as “The Generative Enterprise” (in Japanese). Parts 1-13. Gengo 13, nos. 9-12; 14, nos. 1-9 (1984-85)).
• Modular Approaches to the Study of the Mind. San Diego: State University Press, 1984.
• Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1986. (Reprinted as O Conhecimento da Lígua Sua Natureza, Origem e Uso. Porto: Caminho, 1994; reprinted as Cunoasterea Limbii. Bucharest: Editura Stiintifica, 1996; reprinted as Biblioteca de Stiinte. New York; China: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2001.)
• Barriers. Linguistic Inquiry Monograph Thirteen. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 1986.
• On Power and Ideology, The Managua Lectures. Boston: South End Press and Montreal and New York: Black Rose Books, 1987.
• Language and Problems of Knowledge. The Managua Lectures. Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 1987; reprinted as Probleme Sprachlichen Wissens. Frankfurt: Beltz Athenaum, 1996.)
• Language in a Psychological Setting. Sophia Linguistica: Working Papers in Linguistics, no. 22, Tokyo: The Graduate School of Languages and Linguistics, Linguistic Institute for International Communication, Sophia University, 1987.
• Language and Politics, edited by C. Otero. Montreal and New York: Black Rose Books, 1988; Oakland, CA: Ak Press, 2004.
• Generative Grammar: Its Basis, Development and Prospects. Studies in English Linguistics and Literature, Special Issue, Kyoto: Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, 1988. (From lectures given at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, January 1987.)
• Discurs Politic: Tres Converencies a Catalunya. Barcelona: Editorial Empuries, 1993.
• Language and Thought. Wakefield, RI: Moyer Bell, 1993.
• The Minimalist Program. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1995 Translated as El programa minimista. Barcelona: Editorial Ariel (1998); translated in Japanese. Tokyo: Tuttle-Mori Agency (1998).
• “Derivation by Phase”, MIT Occasional Papers in Linguistics, no. 18, Cambridge, MA: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, Department of Linguistic and Philosophy, 1999. (Unpublished revision 1999; reprinted in Festschrift for Kenneth Hale. Publication pending).
• New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
• The Architecture of Language, edited by Nirmalangshu Mukherji, Bibudhendra Narayan Patnaik andRama Kant Agnihotri. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000. (Edited version of a lecture delivered at the University of Delhi, January 1996.)
• “Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework.” In Step by Step: Essays in Minimalist Syntax in Honor of Howard Lasnik, edited by Robert Martin, David Michaels and Juan Uriagereka, 89-155. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2000.
• Su natura e linguaggio (On Nature and Language), edited by Adriana Belletti and Luigi Rizzi. Siena, Italy: Edizioni dell’Università degli Studi di Siena, 2001. (Collection of text related to Noam Chomsky’s visit to the Certosa di Pontignano, University of Siena, November 1999.)

Linguistic Articles

• “Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew.” Master's thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1951.
• “Systems of Syntactic Analysis.” Journal of Symbolic Logic 18, no. 3 (September 1953): 242-56.
• Review of Modern Hebrew, by E. Reiger. Language 30 no. 1 (January-March 1954): 180-81.
• “Logical Syntax and Semantics: Their Linguistic Relevance.” Language 31, nos. 1-2 (January-March 1955).
• “Transformational Analysis.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1955.
• “Semantic Considerations in Grammar.” Monograph no. 8: 141-50. Georgetown University: The Institute of Languages and Linguistics: November 1955.
• with M. Halle and F. Lukoff. “On Accent and Juncture in English.” In For Roman Jakobson. The Hague: Mouton, 1956.
• “The range of adequacy of various types of grammars.” MIT RLE Quarterly Progress Report, no. 41 (1956): 93-96.
• “On the limits of finite state description.” MIT RLE Quarterly Progress Report, no. 42 (July 1956): 64-65.
• “Three Models for the Description of Language.” IRE Transactions on Information Theory IT-2, no. 3 (September 1956): 113-24. (Reprinted in Readings in Mathematical
• Psychology 2, edited by R. Luce, R. Bush, and E. Galanter, 105-24. New York: Wiley and Sons, 1965.)
• Review of Manual of Phonology, by Charles Hockett. IJAL 23, no. 3 (July 1957): 223-34.Review of Fundamentals of Language, by Roman Jakobson and Morris Halle. IJAL 23, no.3 (July 1957): 234-42.
• “Logical Structures in Language.” American Documentation 8, no. 44 (October 1957): 284-91.
• “Ha-Safa Ha-Ivrit le'or Ha-Balshanut Ha-Xadasha.” Sheviley Ha-Hinuch 17, no. 4 (Summer 1957).
• Review of Language des machines et Language humain, by Vitold Belevitch. Language 34, no. 1 (January-March 1958): 99-105.
• “Some properties of phrase structure grammars.” MIT RLE Quarterly Progress Report, no. 49 (April 15, 1958): 108-11.
• with George Miller. “Finite State Languages.” Information and Control 1 (May 1958): 91-112.(Reprinted in Readings in Mathematical Psychology 2, edited by R. Luce, R. Bush, and E. Galanter, 156-71. New York: Wiley and Sons, 1965.)
• with Israel Scheffler. “What is Said to Be.” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (November 1958): 71-82.
• “Linguistics, Logic, Psychology, and Computers.” Computer Programming and Artificial Intelligence (March 1958): 429-56. (From lectures given at University of Michigan, June 1958.)