Syntactic Salt

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    The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretation and a surface structure that determines its phonetic interpretation.
    Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)

    Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt has lost its savour, wherewith shall it be salted?
    —Bible: New Testament Matthew 5:13.

    From the Sermon on the Mount.