TOKYO, March 8 (UPI) --Syntax is the set of rules and principles that govern sentence structure and word order, allowing humans to communicate and derive meaning through and from language. Previous ...
People communicate meaning by combining words according to syntactic rules. But this ability is not limited solely to humans: A group of evolutionary biologists have discovered that Japanese great ...
Human language is based on syntax, a complex set of rules about how words can be combined. In theory, the emergence of syntactic communication might have been a comparatively straightforward process.