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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. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
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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.
