Greatest Number

Famous quotes containing the words greatest and/or number:

    Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that’s the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.
    Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

    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)