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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:
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| *natural language sentences can be broken down into components (the so-called syntactic constituents);
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| *the resulting structure (i.e., the relations between syntactic constituents) is hierarchical (a tree-like structure) rather than a simple list; and
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| *the structure can be predicted by rules (i.e., the structure is regular), which consist the grammar of the language.
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| For instance, the sentence:
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| <blockquote>''they killed the man''</blockquote>
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| is more productively represented as (1) than (2)
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| |align=center|'''[they][ ][killed][ ][the][ ][man]'''
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| |align=center|(1)
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| |align=center|(2)
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| == Notes ==
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| <references />
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