Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investig...ation of a given language has as its goal the construction of a grammar that can be viewed as a device of some sort for producing the sentences of the language under analysis.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretation... and a surface structure that determines its phonetic interpretation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. Thi...s system of rules can be analyzed into the three major components of a generative grammar: the syntactic, phonological, and semantic components.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From now on I will consider a language to be a set (finite or infinite) of sentences, each finite in length and constructed out of... a finite set of elements. All natural languages in their spoken or written form are languages in this sense.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »