ABSTRACT
As the first published explication of modern generative grammar, Syntactic Structures (henceforth SS) raised many issues in grammatical theory that have remained lively research topics to this day For this reason alone (re)reading SS is highly rewarding for the perspective it provides on how much has changed over the past 45 years and how much remains essentially the same. Howard Lasnik’s brilliant commentary Syntactic Structures Revisited: Contemporary Lectures on Classic Transformational Theory (henceforth SSR) provides us with just such a rereading.
