What is Syntax?

Syntax

component of grammar that deals with how words and phrases are combined into larger phrases

Ungrammatical

when a string of words does not form a sentence, marked by a *

Linguistic Expressions

a piece of language that has a certain form, meaning, and syntactic properties (Ex. Words and phrases)

Arguments

if an expression occurs in a sentence, certain other expressions are required to occur in that order

Syntactic Constituent

in a phrasal expression, the smaller expressions out of which the phrase was constructed

Grammarical

when a string of words really does form a sentence

Syntactic Properties

1. Word Order- how are expressions allowed to be ordered in respect to one another 2. Co-Occurrence- what expressions must occur within a sentence together

Syntactic Categories

Examples include: sentences, nouns, noun phrases... etc.