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Lectures  on Milton by Prof. John Rogers Open Yale Courses My notes of these wonderful lectures on John Milton's works that are available on the Internet.

This classic work on Chomsky's linguistic theory was published in 1957. I read it for my pleasure of dealing with a logically and clearly written book. I like linguistics even I am an amateur in its area but Chomsky had led me through all the complicated issues with a master ability of a great professor. He shows the principle critic of the finite string Markov process in building sentences and incompleteness of the other method - the phrase structure (immediate constituent analysis). Chomsky intoduces a grammar theory base on the three functions that embrace: phrase structure, transformational and morphophonemic rules. So, all the efforts Chomsky puts in linguistic investigation is to find a basic grammar, that can be justified (it must be adequate, but not necessairly meaningful or probable).