Analysis Quote by Noam Chomsky

Grammar is the analysis of language.

— Edgar Allan Poe

“The chief characteristic of English grammar is the way words are arranged within sentences, and the technical term for this process is syntax. It”

— David Crystal

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

— Larry Trask

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

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 and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy.”

— Bertrand Russell

“The slalom race of syntax!”

— Laurent Binet

Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but…

— Harry Mathews

“We write programs not because we understand the syntax but to solve a problem”

— Orobor Anderson Ise

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 seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax, with the…

— John Searle