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>. It assumes that: | 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); | + | *natural language sentences can be broken down into components (the so-called syntactic constituents); |
| − | *the resulting structure is hierarchical (a tree-like structure) rather than a simple list. | + | *the resulting structure is hierarchical (a tree-like structure) rather than a simple list; and |
| + | *the structure can be predicted by rules (i.e., the structure is regular), which consist the grammar of the language. | ||
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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);
- the resulting structure is hierarchical (a tree-like structure) rather than a simple list; and
- the structure can be predicted by rules (i.e., the structure is regular), which consist the grammar of the language.
Notes
- ↑ Chomsky, Noam. [1957]. Syntactic Structures. p. 11.
