Strain Components

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    You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel!
    Bible: New Testament, Matthew 23:24.

    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)