what is syntax????




"Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation of a given language has as its goal the construction of a grammar that can be viewed as a device of some sort for producing the sentences of the language under analysis."(Noam Chomsky, 2002:11)


Syntax is one of the branch of linguistics that studies the rules that determine how the words form phrases and phrases to form sentences. Etymologically the term syntax is putting together words into sentences and groups of words or groups of words into sentences.

What is Syntax?
Syntax
– the part of linguistics that studies sentence structure:
word order:
I want these books.
*want these I books.
agreement – subject and verb, determiner and noun, . . . often m
ust agree:
He wants this book.
*He want this book.
I want these books.
*I want this books.
How many complements, which prepositions and forms (cases):
I give Mary a book.
*I see Mary a book.
I see her.
*I see she.
hierarchical structure – what modifies what
We need more (intelligent leaders).
(more of intelligent leaders)
We need (more intelligent) leaders.
(leaders that are more intelligent)
etc.
Syntax is not about meaning! Sentences can have no sense and still
be grammatically correct:
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
– nonsense, but grammatically correct
*Sleep ideas colorless furiously green.
– grammatically incorrect
Syntax: From Greek
syntaxis
from
syn
(together) +taxis(arrangement).Cf.
symphony, synonym, synthesis; taxonomy, tactics

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  2. adhel. your blog so simple and when i read your blog I'm understand what you wrote. But, when you taught makes me bored and garing wkwkwk😅😅

    BalasHapus
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