Human Language

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“From this fat dungeon I could rise to skin
And human title, putting pig within.”
—Thom Gunn (b. 1929)

“Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation 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.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)