1917 | "The science which teaches us (a) to classify the units of a given language according to their function in the sentence; (b) to build up original (i.e. unknown) units from the smaller known units of which they are composed.
Ergonics comprises the whole range of analysis and synthesis from the sentence at one extreme down to the insecables at the other extreme, whereas Syntax is only concerned with the reduction of a sentence into Subject, Predicate, and Object, and vice versa." | Palmer, Harold E. (1917, p.311) |