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For simplicity, I will use jargon that recalls the early days of
theoretical syntax (roughly, the 1960s) once that discipline had been founded
by Zellig Harris and Noam Chomsky.
A syntax or grammar for a language, natural or artificial, is a device for
sorting well-formed or grammatical sentences from among all the strings
made up of words from that language. And again (as with semantics), the
model is that of formation rules for a logical system. Recall Oafish. Sentences
of Oafish can be parsed, diagrammed by what are called "phrase markers,"
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in a way that directly depicts how they are compounded syntactically out of
individual terms. Here is "Fa and not Fb."
Sentence
Sentence Connective Sentence
Predicate Name Connective Sentence
Predicate Name
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