Famous quotes containing the words literary and/or device:
“The literary “fellow travelers” of the Revolution.”
—Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)
“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)