Syntax ch.1 Introduction

Chapter 1. Introduction Grammar: The set of rules Syntax: The structure of sentences Sentence: The string of words which is starting with capital letters and finishing with full stop.

Constituent: Strings of one or more words that syntactically and semantically behave as units. * ① The cat devoured the rat. ② The rat devoured the cat. ⇒ Rules of syntax must be set up in such a way that they can account for the fact that reordering leads to a difference in meaning. * The rat, the cat devoure...