Accurate Quote by Noam Chomsky

Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This system of…

— Noam Chomsky

It is possible to produce something that is grammatical either by chance or under the supervision of another. To be proficient in grammar, then,…

— Ernest Sosa

As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect indicative -…

— Frederick Lenz

Grammar has qualities, shapes and forms.

— Frederick Lenz

The grammar of a language is simply the way it combines smaller elements (such as words) into larger elements (such as sentences).

— Larry Trask

It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach to grammar,…

— Niels Kaj Jerne

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain Beauty. When you speak, or read, or write, you can tell if you've spoken…

— Muriel Barbery

Grammar is what gives sense to language .... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And the business…

— David Crystal

The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretationand a surface structure that determines…

— Noam Chomsky

Grammar is the analysis of language.

— Edgar Allan Poe

UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of thisfaculty as a 'language acquisition…

— Noam Chomsky

Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can be discovered,…

— Charlton Laird