Frontmatter -- Contents -- Part I: Syntactic Structures -- Preface -- Table of contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The independence of grammar -- 3. An elementary linguistic theory -- 4. Phrase Structure -- 5. Limitations of Phrase Structure Descriptions -- 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: Natations and Terminology -- 12. Appendix II: Exemples of English Phrase structure and transformational rules -- Bibliography -- Part II: Syntactic Structures after 60 Years -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Syntactic Structures. Some retrospective comments -- Syntactic Structures: Formal Foundations -- The Autonomy of Syntax -- Revolutionary New Ideas Appear Infrequently -- Acceptability judgments and grammaticality, prospects and challenges -- The explanatory power of linguistic theory -- Kernel sentences, phrase structure grammars, and theta roles -- Transformations in the Quest for a Simpler, more Elegant Theory -- Grammatical vs. Lexical Formatives -- Syntactic Structures and Morphology -- Constructions -- Meanings via Syntactic Structures -- Back to the Future: Non-generation, filtration, and the heartbreak of interfacedriven minimalism -- English verbs in Syntactic Structures -- Passive -- Discovering syntactic variation