Noam Chomsky 
Syntactic Structures [PDF ebook] 

Frontmatter — Table of Contents — 1. Introduction — 2. The Independence of Grammar — 3. An elementary Linguistic Theory — 4. Phrase Structure — 5. Limitations of Phrase Structure Description — 6. On the Goals of Linguistic Theory — 7. Some Transformations in English — 8. The explanatory Power of Linguistic Theory — 9. Syntax and Semantics — 10. Summary — 11. Appendix I. Notations and Terminology — 12. Appendix II. Examples of English Phrase Structure and transformational Rules — Backmatter

Noam Chomsky is Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
David W. Lightfoot is Professor at Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA.