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Syntactic Structures

Foundational Generative Linguistics Text, 1957

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Syntactic Structures is Noam Chomsky's 1957 monograph introducing transformational generative grammar, arguing that a language's grammar is a finite system of rules capable of generating its infinite set of well-formed sentences. It is widely credited with founding the generative tradition in modern linguistics.

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Noam Chomsky
Publication Year
1957
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Syntactic Structures
Noam Chomsky, 1957
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