1. THE SENTENCE – DEFINITION, FEATURES AND TYPES

 I. INTRODUCTION

Syntax is a major branch of linguistics which along with morphology deals with the description of the structure / grammar / of linguistic expressions. 

Morphology / from Old Greek – “the study of form”/ deals with the paradigms of forms of linguistic units, e.g. the forms that tell aspect, mood etc. of a verbal lexeme. Syntax / from Old Greek – “putting together”/ deals with the combinations of linguistic units /syntagmatic relations/ into larger structures – phrases and sentences. The main unit of study in syntax, however, is the sentence, while phrases are on the borderline between morphology and syntax.

Because the sentence is essential for syntactic analysis, it is very important to give a definition of this linguistic unit.