Context Sensitive Grammar

Famous quotes containing the words context, sensitive and/or grammar:

    “The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

    “A million years of sensitive men dying for their dreams. For what? So you can swim and dance and play.”
    —David Duncan (b.1913)

    “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)