Syntax: the language form

Language processing in humans and computers: Part 3

How do you know that this is a sentence?

Syntax is deep, semantics is arbitrary

People speak many languages. People who speak different languages generally don’t understand each other. How is it possible to have a general theory of language?

Life is also diversified in many species, and different species generally cannot interbreed¹. But life is a universal capability of self-reproduction and biology is a general theory of life.

General linguistics is …

grammar language model