Concept information
Preferred term
syntax
Definition
- Study of grammar, or the rules for combining words and morphemes into phrases and sentences. (Termium)
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- absolute construction
- annotation
- categorization
- cohesion
- coword
- deletion transformation
- double negation
- extraposition
- feature structure
- gapping
- island constraint
- linearization
- movement transformation
- phrase
- phrase head
- phraseology
- polarity item
- pro-drop
- pronominalization
- raising transformation
- relativization
- repeating
- rheme
- serial verb construction
- structure preservation
- subordination
- syntactical alternation
- syntactic derivation
- syntactic feature
- syntactic island
- syntactic tree
- syntactic variation
- topicalization
- tough-movement
- wh-movement
- word boundary
Example
- The syntax of Arabic is simpler than that of any European language and it has been well-described for centuries. (Brown, 1962)
In other languages
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French
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/8LP-T8P8X46F-V
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