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Syntactic Structures

Syntactic Structures is a seminal work in linguistics by American linguist Noam Chomsky, originally published in 1957. A short monograph of about a hundred pages, it is recognized as one of the most significant and influential linguistic studies of the 20th century. It contains the now-famous sentence "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously", which…

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Author
Noam Chomsky
Publication date
February 1957
Publisher
Mouton & Co.
Language
English
Media type
Print
Pages
117

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