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If youve ever wondered where transformational grammar comes from, youve found the source. Published in 1957, Syntactic Structures was Chomskys attempt to bring something resembling the theoretical rigor of the physical sciences to the heretofore relatively touchy-feely discipline of linguistics, and the effect was groundbreaking. Chomsky reconceived grammar as a formal, finite set of rules,