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Syntax is the study of the structure of the sentence in which the words can be ordered and

combined to form phrases and sentences. For some no linguists syntax is grammar and
grammar is syntax and also is considered a very important component of grammar as well as
phonology which is related to sound patterns and morphology which refers to the word
formation and also semantics and pragmatic.

Features of syntax:

- All human languages have syntax, but it is not the same.

-Words cannot be freely ordered in any language, they can be combined in a specific and
restrictive way.

-In other languages when we combine the words to form a sentence or phrase, they are not
just drawn together linearly but as a group of constituents.

-All languages assign a hierarchical structure to form sentences.

-Syntax is creative because speakers combine words in novel ways.

-Syntax is inaccessibility because grammars are not directly accessible to conscious


introspection.

A goal of linguistics is to discover how languages can have similar characteristics and different
ones, so it is the syntax that is responsible for investigating possible and impossible
constructions and structures in the world's languages.

Syntactic rules and principles can experience the tactical patterns that belong to all the
languages of the world and the universal grammar refers to the inactive faculty of language.

Basic procedure that a linguist must carry out in a syntactic research:

1) Gather and observe a linguistic data: a list of grammatical and ungrammatical sentences.

2) Based on these sentences the linguist can make generalizations and hypotheses.

3) Check hypothesis against more data.

Our hypothesis is confirmed if it can account for the new data.

if it fails to account for the new data, the linguist has to revise the hypothesis so that he can
explain the new data as well.

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