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Syntax is the branch of linguistics concerned with the principles and rules governing how words combine into phrases, clauses, and sentences, and how these constituents are organized into hierarchical structures [1]. It examines the distribution of linguistic elements, their structural relationships, and the grammatical constraints that determine the formation of expressions within a language [1][2]. Central concepts in syntactic analysis include constituents, grammatical functions, word order, agreement, coordination, subordination, and embedding, although the theoretical representation and classification of these phenomena vary across linguistic frameworks [2]. Syntax is distinct from morphology, which primarily investigates the internal structure of words, and semantics, which concerns meaning, although syntactic structure interacts with both in the grammatical organization and interpretation of linguistic expressions [1][2].

sentence structure grammatical relations constituent structure linguistic theory
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  1. Carnie, A. 2021. Syntax: A Generative Introduction (4th ed.). Wiley-Blackwell. https://studentebookhub.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/preview/9781119569237.pdf
  2. Rodney Huddleston; Geoffrey K. Pullum. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language; Cambridge University Press (CUP): Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2002. [CrossRef]
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