Famous quotes containing the words virtue and/or system:
“You make a virtue out of a necessity.”
—Jerome (c. 340–420)
“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)