Chomsky, an American linguist, published by Morton Publishing Company in The Hague, the Netherlands, 1957. Chapter *** 10 of this book. Prior to this, Chomsky wrote Logical Structure of Language Theory in 1955. For various reasons, the book was not officially published until 1975, and the syntactic structure can be said to be the outline of the book.

Syntactic structure is a revolution in American traditional descriptive linguistics. Its revolution is first manifested in Chomsky's opposition to empiricism in descriptive linguistics from the standpoint of rationalism.

He thought that linguistics, like other sciences in natural science, could be deduced from assumptions and formalized. In other words, non-empiricism is possible. Half of the syntactic structure is devoted to the formalization of English grammar, and non-empiricism and formalization are the initial signs of transformational generative grammar.

The extended data syntax structure excludes semantics from grammar, and the theoretical framework of this period does not include semantics. Chomsky believes that grammar theory should not be based on semantics, but should use some strict and objective methods to replace the dependence on fuzzy semantics. But this theory was greatly revised in the later development.

Syntactic structure is a masterpiece of classical theory and the first stage of transformational generative grammar. Its publication is regarded as the beginning of Chomsky revolution and the birth of transformational generative grammar.

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