Syntax is the study of sentences and their
structure, and the constructions within sentences. Syntax tells
us what goes where in a sentence. Grammar is the general term
referring to the set of rules in a given language including syntax ,
morphology, while syntax studies sentence structures.
Syntax is roughly about word order. Grammar has two overlapping meanings: 1. Everything about how a language works,
including syntax as a subset. 2. How words
are inflected, conjugated, declined according to aspect, degree, gender, mood,
number, person, tense, etc. 1. is the sense
linguists would use. 2. is what some
people not familiar with actual linguistics would use and is why you will
encounter claims such as "Chinese has no gramma
Universal Grammar is a
linguistic theory developed by Noam Chomsky according to which all human
languages are constructed on the same, abstract template, and that this
explains why all normal speakers acquire their native language quickly and
accurately.
Universal grammar, theory proposing
that humans possess innate faculties related to the acquisition of language. The definition of
universal grammar has evolved considerably since first it was postulated and,
moreover, since the 1940s, when it became a specific object of modern
linguistic research. It is associated with work in generative grammar, and it is based on
the idea that certain aspects of syntactic structure are universal. Universal
grammar consists of a set of atomic grammatical categories and relations that
are the building blocks of the particular grammars of all human languages, over
which syntactic structures and constraints on those structures are defined. A
universal grammar would suggest that all languages possess the same set of
categories and relations and that in order to communicate through langua
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