And most linguists would argue "Yes," that languages are highly constrained in how they do things.

大多数语言学家们都会回答"是的",语言在很大程度上依赖于语法规则的使用

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By the way, I'm going to leave also to your sections the strange confusion that ensues in taking a rhetorical device, metonymy, and making it synonymous with grammar on the axis of combination.

另外，我还将把奇怪的困惑留给你们思考,这个困惑随着使用修辞学策略和转喻而产生，并使得它在结合轴上与语法有着同样的意思。

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Syntax is a more technical term but it means the same thing as grammar.

这里说的语法是更加专业的术语,在意义上和平时说的语法是一样的

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