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What Is Syntax: by Yusup Supyani, S.S

Syntax is the study of how sentences are organized and structured through the arrangement of words. It looks at how words fit together to form sentences. A sentence is considered grammatical if it follows the syntactic rules of a language, such as in the example "the boy is eating a pizza", while ungrammatical sentences violate these rules through random or incorrect word order, like "boy the is eating pizza a". The document provides definitions of syntax from various linguistic sources and gives examples of grammatical and ungrammatical sentences to illustrate syntactic structure.

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What Is Syntax: by Yusup Supyani, S.S

Syntax is the study of how sentences are organized and structured through the arrangement of words. It looks at how words fit together to form sentences. A sentence is considered grammatical if it follows the syntactic rules of a language, such as in the example "the boy is eating a pizza", while ungrammatical sentences violate these rules through random or incorrect word order, like "boy the is eating pizza a". The document provides definitions of syntax from various linguistic sources and gives examples of grammatical and ungrammatical sentences to illustrate syntactic structure.

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WHAT IS SYNTAX

By
Yusup Supyani, S.S.

Contents

What is Syntax?

Grammaticality/Ungrammaticality

What is syntax?
The word syntax comes originally from Greek and literally means
a putting together or arrangement (Yule, 2010:96).
Syntax: the study of how sentences are organized:
(Danesi, 2004:188).
Syntax (which) seeks to describe the way words fit
together to form sentences or utterances (Thomas,
1993:1).
Syntax: the study of sentence structure (Aarts,
2001:297).

Grammaticality/
Ungrammaticality
Consider

the following seven arrangements of the same words. All, except


for one, have been strung together in a random fashion:

(1) boy the is eating pizza a


(2) boy pizza the a is eating
(3) boy pizza a the is eating
(4) pizza boy the a is eating
(5) is eating a boy pizza the
(6) a the is eating boy pizza
(7) the boy is eating a pizza

References
Aarts, Bas. 2001. English Syntax and Argumentation: Second Edition. London:
Palgrave
Danesi, Marcel. 2004. A Basic Course in Anthropological Linguistics. Toronto:
Canadian Scholars Press .
Thomas, Linda. 1993. Beginning Syntax. Massachusetts: Blackwell.
Yule, George. 2010. The Study of Language: Fourth Edition. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.

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