Famous quotes containing the words precedence and/or grammar:
“Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“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)