Syntactic Trees

Famous quotes containing the words syntactic and/or trees:

    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)

    an endless wind
    Whips at the headstones of the dead and wails
    In the trees for all who have and have not sinned.
    Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)