Syntax is roughly about word order. Grammar has two overlapping meanings: 1. Everything about how a language works, including syntax as a subset. 2. How words are inflected, conjugated, declined …

Jan 3, 2016 · In some discussions, I use them interchangeably. My preference is to make a distinction between "grammar" and "syntax" parallel to logicians' terms "morphology" and "logical syntax", …

Apr 4, 2020 · If we put it in a simple way, can we say generative grammar is about tree diagram, and transformation grammar is how sentences can be interpreted in another way?

Closed 7 years ago. I think syntax is concerning with the theories of syntax like structuralism, behaviorism, traditional, and informational since each school has it's own rules and theories while …

May 19, 2019 · Take this syntax tree as an example: Why is a prepositional phrase (PP) sometimes a post-modifier and sometimes a complement? What is the difference in general? I need to be able to …

May 20, 2021 · Here 'grammatical function' means 'grammatical relation' in the traditional sense, also commonly referred to as 'syntactic function', for example in The Cambridge Grammar of the English …

Even within a single language there may be a distinction between the phonological word and the morphological word. As such, morphology and syntax can be easy to distinguish within a given …

As far as I know, in a string of attributive adjectives, all the adjectives modify the same noun (s); there's no embedding: solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short lives I'm hoping that the experts on the list can …

Feb 17, 2020 · The difference, then, lies in particular with what one considers a phrase to be. I think many syntacticians would disagree with the tree analysis above concerning the subject Drunks; they …

It's confusing to refer to 1st and 2nd types. The 2nd and 3rd types are Type 1 and Type 2. Your example rule aK->abK is in a Type 1 context sensitive, or Type 0 grammar, since it could be expressed as K …