It is thus clear that by an increasing complexity of social relations will be accompanied by an increasing complexity of syntax. Division of labour will involve the appearance of new forms of human and material relations which will determine the appearance, in language, of new functions.
- Martinet (1962), a pag.137

Traditional grammar distinguishes neatly between two main chapters: on the one hand is the study of those combinations of significant elements that may involve some formal variations or accidents ('cow', 'cows', but 'ox', 'oxen', 'child', 'children'; 'work', 'worked', but 'keep', 'kept', 'sing', 'sang'), which normally thake place within the word; this is called accidence or morphology; on the other hand, the examination of the way separate words can be combined into larger units, which is called syntax.
- Martinet (1962), a pag.89-90