Closed Indefinitely

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    No domain of nature is quite closed to man at all times.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This system of rules can be analyzed into the three major components of a generative grammar: the syntactic, phonological, and semantic components.
    Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)