Syntax

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Syntax

• The study of sentences
• Greek syntasso The art of putting things
  together
• Rules for putting words together to form sentences

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Syntax

• Connection between syntax and grammatical rules
• Notional-Functional Grammar
• NOTION overall ideas like ongoingness, activity
• FUNCTION speech acts in which these notions
  occur e.g. talking about an activity

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Grammatical Units

• Text
• Sentence
• Clause
• Phrase
• Word
• Morpheme

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Grammatical Relations

• Predication
• Complementation
• Modification
• Determination