Syntactic Structures
The short 1957 monograph that made grammar a property of the mind rather than a habit learned.
The 1957 monograph that reshaped linguistics. Chomsky argued that the grammar of a language is a finite system generating infinite sentences, and that this capacity is built into the human mind rather than learned by imitation. Short, technical, and the foundation of generative linguistics and much of cognitive science.
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