Syntax

• Syntax- is a branch of linguistics that studies how words are combined to form sentences and the rules that govern the formation of sentences.
• Syntactic category

  • Parts of Speech:
  • Phrase Structure Grammars
  • Sentence, as the core of the structure.
• • Parts of Speech
  • Determiner
  • Adjective
  • Noun
  • Pronoun
  • Preposition
  • Adverb
  • Auxiliary
  • Verb
• Phrase Structure Grammars

  Noun Phrase

  Verb Phrase

  Adjective Phrase

  Adverb Phrase

  Preposition Phrase)
• MAIN LEXICAL CATEGORY

  • noun
  • verb
  • adjective
  • adverb
  • preposition
• MINOR LEXICAL/FUNCTIONAL CATEGORY

  • determiner
  • conjuction
  • degree word
  • qualifier
• Word’s category is determined by three criteria, namely meaning, inflection,

  and distribution.