Master Device

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    The right moment has come, which for men is the master of every deed.
    Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

    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)