Grammar
Aslian syntax is presumably conservative with respect to Austro-Asiatic as a whole, though Malay influence is apparent in some details of the grammar (e.g. use of numeral classifiers).
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“Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.”
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“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.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)
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