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When was Noam Chomsky’s Syntactic Structures first published?
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American linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky, 2010.
Noam Chomsky’s Syntactic Structures was first published in 1957. The book, which originated from a series of lectures Chomsky delivered to undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, introduced his influential system of transformational-generative grammar.12