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.