Chapter 8.
DESCRIPTION
REFLECTIONS ON EACH TOPIC
In the last chapter, we moved from the general categories and concepts
of traditional grammar to more specific methods of describing the
structure of phrases and sentences. When we concentrate on the
This chapter I learn about of rules, principles, and processes that govern
the structure of sentences in a given language, specifically word
structure and ordering of components within a sentence, we are studying
the syntax of a language. The word “syntax” comes originally from Greek order and punctuation. And that the syntax refers to the rules governing
and literally means “a putting together” or “arrangement.” In earlier the behavior of mathematical systems, such as formal languages used
approaches to the analysis of syntax, as we saw in Chapter 7, there was
an attempt to produce an accurate description of the sequence or
ordering “arrangement” of elements in the linear structure of the
sentence.
in logic.