All utterances have syntax and paradigms {grammar}|. Grammar includes syntax and inflexion. Language knowledge is a finite system of rules operating on fundamental elements, which interact to determine an infinite number of expressions, with phonetic forms, meanings, and structural properties.
relations
Grammar is about linguistic-unit relations, not meaning. Grammar expresses location, direction, time, number, familiarity, possibility, contingency, possession, agency, purpose, necessity, obligation, and existence or non-existence.
relations: space concepts
All grammars indicate spatial location and motion. Sentence linguistic-unit relations reflect physical object and event relations in space and time. Physical relations reflect required grammar type: linear/regular or unrestricted, contracting or non-contracting, and context-sensitive or context-free. Complex concepts use spatial-location and motion concepts.
relations: time concepts
Space and time have similar representations.
innate
Many fundamental grammar properties are innate, but people have different language elements and mental representations.
grammatical sense
People sense {grammatical sense} that word strings are grammatical. Grammatical sense depends on words fitting into familiar connection frameworks.
repetition
People tend to use same word relationships.
context
Contexts are unit relations. Context can be syntax rules about relations between grammar units. Context can be contrast rules about which linguistic units can replace grammar units. For constant number of linguistic units, number of relations is inversely proportional to number of paradigms.
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