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Sentence
EditA sentence is a grammatical unit that functions as a complete structural construction within a language system and typically consists of one or more clauses organized according to syntactic principles [1]. In linguistic analysis, sentences are distinguished from smaller syntactic units, such as phrases and individual words, by their potential to form independent grammatical expressions and by the presence of clause-level organization [2]. The internal structure of a sentence may involve relationships among constituents, including subjects, predicates, complements, and other syntactic elements, while the specific formal properties of sentences vary across languages according to their grammatical systems [1].
syntax
clause structure
grammatical unit
constituent structure
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- Rodney Huddleston; Geoffrey K. Pullum. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language; Cambridge University Press (CUP): Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2002. [CrossRef]
- Andrew Carnie . Syntax: A Generative Introduction, 4th Edition; Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, UK., 2021.
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