Famous quotes containing the words device and/or names:
“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)
“At present our only true names are nicknames.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)