Syntactic Structures

Syntactic Structures is an influential work in linguistics by American linguist Noam Chomsky, originally published in 1957. It is an elaboration of his teacher’s, Zellig Harris’s, model of transformational generative grammar. A short monograph of  bout a hundred pages, Chomsky’s presentation is recognized as one of the most significant studies of the 20th century.  It contains the now-famous sentence “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously”, which Chomsky offered as an example of a grammatically correct sentence that has no discernible meaning.