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‘Syntax’ means ‘sentence construction’: how words group together to make phrases and sentences. Some people also use the term grammar to mean the same as syntax, although most linguists follow the more recent practice whereby the grammar of a language includes all of its organizing principles: information about the sound system, about the form of words, how we adjust language according to context, and so on; syntax is only one part of this grammar.
The first sentence seemed broken:
A synchronic desription of language expression in linguistics is described at several levels of description
I have changed it to::
In linguistics, language expression is described at several levels:
The listing that follows I have given numbered items, to make it decipherable. Also added some missing plurals.
The part
Unlike syntax in the sense of logic and computer science, thus, syntax is not…
I have changed to
Unlike syntax in the sense of formal logic and computer science, syntax in linguistics is thus not…
I have tried to similarly adjust at a few more places, but will leave it at that now. Maybe try to read it out to yourself to check how it flows.
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