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descriptive grammar
describes the way a language works
describes what's there & how it functions

Ex: all the rules for the syntax trees
Prescriptive grammar
the 'correct' way to speak, write...
compares to a standard of 'correctness'

Ex: A teacher telling a student not to use the word "ain't"
syntax is primarily concerned with __________ grammar
descriptive
the job of the syntactician is
to come up with the rules to explain this system we all already (unconsciously) use
recursion
property of phase structure rules
explains the potential infinity of language