Famous quotes containing the words goal and/or state:
“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)
“The state is not “abolished,” it withers away.”
—Friedrich Engels (1820–1895)