Common Language

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“Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“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)