{"id":1734,"date":"2011-04-13T01:00:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T05:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/info-libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2023-07-12T15:55:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T15:55:49","slug":"1957","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/04\/13\/1957\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 97 &#8211; 1957: Syntactic Structures by Noam Chomsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/04\/13\/1957\/1957-cover\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1735\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1735 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/04\/1957-cover-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/04\/1957-cover-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/04\/1957-cover-700x1024.jpg 700w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/04\/1957-cover-768x1123.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/04\/1957-cover-624x912.jpg 624w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/04\/1957-cover.jpg 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a>Published: \u2018s-Gravenhage, Netherlands, 1957<\/p>\n<p>If a reader should take away a single sentence from this unassuming paperback publication, let it be this one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Most of us will agree that this sentence is grammatically correct. Semantically speaking, on the other hand, it makes no sense at all. Armed with this example, Noam Chomsky undermined the prevailing linguistic models of the day, sending shockwaves through academia and altering the linguistic landscape forever.<\/p>\n<p>Like Newton\u2019s <em>Principia <\/em>and Marx\u2019s <em>Das Kapital<\/em>, this slim volume precipitated nothing short of a revolution in its field.\u00a0 With <em>Syntactic Structures<\/em>, Chomsky \u2013 now an MIT <a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/04\/13\/1957\/1957-diagram\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1736\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1736 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/04\/1957-diagram-300x272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/04\/1957-diagram-300x272.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/04\/1957-diagram.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Institute Professor \u2013 took modern linguistics in a whole new direction. This, in turn, opened up new directions in psychology, philosophy, and a number of other disciplines.<\/p>\n<p>In the year 2000, the Center for Cognitive Science at the University of Minnesota published a list of the 20th century\u2019s 100 most influential books in cognitive science. When the votes were counted, <em>Syntactic Structures<\/em> was at the top.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/04\/13\/1957\/1957-diagram2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1737\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1737 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/04\/1957-diagram2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/04\/13\/1957\/1957-text\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1738\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1738 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/04\/1957-text-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/04\/13\/1957\/1957-title\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1739\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1739 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/04\/1957-title-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01MIT_INST\/jp08pj\/alma990002425480106761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find it in the library<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published: \u2018s-Gravenhage, Netherlands, 1957 If a reader should take away a single sentence from this unassuming paperback publication, let it be this one: Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. Most of us will agree that this sentence is grammatically correct. Semantically speaking, on the other hand, it makes no sense at all. Armed with this example, Noam Chomsky undermined the prevailing linguistic models of the day, sending shockwaves through academia and altering the linguistic landscape forever. Like Newton\u2019s Principia and Marx\u2019s Das Kapital, this slim volume precipitated nothing short of a revolution in its field.\u00a0 With Syntactic Structures, Chomsky \u2013 now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":false,"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-years","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4306,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions\/4306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}