Syntax and Its Usage
Keywords:
syntax, grammar, culture, nature, goalAbstract
In linguistics, syntax (/ˈsɪntæks/) is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central concerns of syntax include word order, grammatical relations, hierarchical sentence structure (constituency), agreement, the nature of crosslinguistic variation, and the relationship between form and meaning. There are numerous approaches to syntax which differ in their central assumptions and goals.