Complex sentence: In an early review of the book, American structural linguist Charles F. Voegelin wrote that in "Syntactic Structures" posed a fundamental challenge to the established way of doing linguistic research, stating that it had the potential to accomplish "a Copernican revolution" within linguistics.
Split into simpler sentences: In an early review of the book, American structural linguist Charles F. Voegelin wrote that in "Syntactic Structures" posed a fundamental challenge to the established way of doing linguistic research. He stated that it had the potential to accomplish "a Copernican revolution" within linguistics.