{"id":1401,"date":"2024-12-23T11:01:51","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T09:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/lei\/?page_id=1401"},"modified":"2025-05-19T18:02:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T16:02:33","slug":"7-syntax","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/toc\/7-syntax\/","title":{"rendered":"7. Syntax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIn this chapter, we will discover how we can combine words into larger units, such as sentences. The study of sentences (and other multi-word units, like phrases and clauses) is called syntax. When you\u2019ve completed this chapter, you will be able to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>determine which words in a sentence are part of the same constituent<\/li>\n<li>distinguish different types of phrases and clauses<\/li>\n<li>represent sentences as tree diagrams <\/li>\n<li>identify structural ambiguity<\/li>\n<li>write rules describing the structure of phrases and clauses<\/li>\n<li>identify the valency patterns of a given verb <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Contents<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/lei\/toc\/7-syntax\/7-1-studying-syntax\/\">7.1 Studying syntax<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/lei\/toc\/7-syntax\/7-2-constituent-tests\/\">7.2 Constituent tests<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/lei\/toc\/7-syntax\/7-3-phrases\/\">7.3 Phrases<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/lei\/toc\/7-syntax\/7-4-phrase-structure-rules\/\">7.4 Phrase structure rules<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/lei\/toc\/7-syntax\/7-5-valency\/\">7.5 Valency<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/lei\/toc\/7-syntax\/7-6-clause-structure\/\">7.6 Clause structure<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/lei\/toc\/7-syntax\/7-7-clause-types-their-relation-to-each-other\/\">7.7 Clause types and their relation to each other<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this chapter, we will discover how we can combine words into larger units, such as sentences. The study of sentences (and other multi-word units, like phrases and clauses) is called syntax. When you\u2019ve completed this chapter, you will be able to: determine which words in a sentence are part of the same constituent distinguish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1401","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1954,"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1401\/revisions\/1954"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistica.info\/b\/leiwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}