Famous quotes containing the words battle and/or system:
“That civilisation may not sink,
Its great battle lost,”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“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)