Linguistic Books by Noam Chomsky

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.

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Essays on Form and Interpretation. North-Holland: Elsevier, 1977.

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. (From lectures

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 given at Sophia University and Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, January 1987;
reprinted in Recherches Linguistiques de Vincennes, Linguistique et Cognition: Reponses a
Queluqes Critiques de La Grammaire Generative, J.-Y. Pollock and H. Obenauer, eds.:
21-44. Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 1990.)

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.)

On Nature and Language, edited by Adriana Belletti and Luigi Rizzi. Cambridge,
England: Cambridge University Press, 2002. (Collection of text related to Noam

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 Chomsky’s visit to the Certosa di Pontignano, University of Siena, November 1999.)

The Generative Enterprise Revisited: Discussions with Riny Huybregts, Henk van Riemsdijk,
Naoki Fukui and Mihoko Zushi, Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004.