Syntax: The study of how linguistic units larger than the word are constructed. Syntacticians address such questions as: …How can the number of sentences that speakers can create be infinite in number even though the number of words in any language is finite? …What makes a sentence like visiting relatives can be boring ambiguous? …Why would English speakers judge a sentence like colorless green ideas sleep furiously to be “grammatical” even though it is nonsensical? …How can languages express the same thoughts even though they construct their sentences in different ways (e.g. Why does English I saw them there mean the same thing as French je les y ai vus even though the order of elements in French is I them there have seen)? …How can humans program a computer to analyze the structure of sentences?