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In grammar, a sentence is the largest unit that a grammar describes: a syntactically complete expression that typically joins a subject and a predicate and can stand on its own. Bloomfield's 1933 Language defined it as an independent linguistic form that no larger grammatical construction contains, and later grammars sort sentences by type, such as declarative, interrogative, and imperative, and by structure, such as simple, compound, and complex. The referent is a unit of language structure, judged well formed or not by the rules of a grammar, and it is not a punishment handed down by a court or a closed formula in a logical system.[1]
In mathematical logic, a sentence is a well-formed formula with no free variables: a closed formula whose truth is settled, either true or false, once an interpretation of the language is fixed. Tarski's 1944 The Semantic Conception of Truth drew the line between sentences, which are true or false outright, and open formulas, whose variables must first be assigned values before truth can be judged. The referent is a formal object in a logical language, evaluated for truth relative to a model, and it is neither a grammatical unit of ordinary language nor a penalty imposed by a court.[2]
In music theory, sentence refers to a theme built from a basic idea, its repetition, and a continuation that drives to a cadence. This meaning comes from Schoenberg (1967) in Fundamentals of musical composition.[3]
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