An aspect of representing the three basic syntactical units

Abstract

While morphology basically deals with the structure of words using the two basic units, a morpheme and a word syntax deals with different word groups that can be put into three main syntactical units - a phrase, a clause and a sentence. The two structures can be pointed out; a phrase structure based upon a head word and modifiers to qualify and quantify the meaning of a head, and a sentence structure that is based upon a predicator indicating an action or a state being and a subject indicating a doer of the action. These two are obligatory while some optional can be added as well. In order to understand a syntactical description we have to be aware of the differences and the similarities of the two structures and the three basic syntactical units. .

Keywords

• syntax
• phrase
• clause
• sentence
• structure
• function