. "117"^^ . "Syntactic Structures"@en . . . "Syntactic Structures is a book in linguistics by American linguist Noam Chomsky, first published in 1957. A seminal work in 20th-century linguistics, it laid the foundation of Chomsky's idea of transformational grammar. It contains the famous sentence, \"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously\", which Chomsky offered as an example of a sentence that is completely grammatical, yet also completely nonsensical."@en .