Syntax
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| − | In Linguistics, '''syntax''' is "the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages"<ref> Chomsky, Noam. [1957]. Syntactic Structures. p. 11.</ref> | + | In Linguistics, '''syntax''' is "the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages"<ref> Chomsky, Noam. [1957]. Syntactic Structures. p. 11.</ref>. It assumes that: |
| + | *natural language sentences can be broken down into components (the so-called syntactic constituents); and | ||
| + | *the resulting structure is hierarchical (a tree-like structure) rather than a simple list. | ||
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In Linguistics, syntax is "the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages"[1]. It assumes that:
- natural language sentences can be broken down into components (the so-called syntactic constituents); and
- the resulting structure is hierarchical (a tree-like structure) rather than a simple list.
Notes
- ↑ Chomsky, Noam. [1957]. Syntactic Structures. p. 11.
