Syntactic Structures

Syntactic Structures is the name of an influential book by Noam Chomsky first published in 1957. Widely regarded as one of the most important texts in the field of linguistics, this work touted the then-popular behaviorist theories of B.F. Skinner and others and also laid the foundation of Chomsky's idea of transformational grammar. The book contains the notorious example of a sentence that is 100% grammatical, but completely nonsensical in "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously."