SYNTAX

Syntax is the study of the structure of sentences, the principles, both universal and language specific, that govern how words are assembled to yield grammatical sentences.

Syntax discussed about structure,function,categorized,and role of syntax,and then tools that use in build it. Units of syntax such as: word,phrase,clause,sentence and discouce.

1.    Structure of syntax

In generally syntax consist of subject,predicate,object,and adverb(time,place)

2.word as units of syntax

          In morphology “word” is the big unit,the small unit is morpheme. But in syntax”word” is the small unit. In the units of syntax first we must differentiate 2 kinds of word,such as fullword and functionword. Fullword is lexical word has meaning.has likely to undergo morphological processes, an open class and can be separated as a unit of speech. while functionword is a lexical word has no meaning, do not undergo morphological processes, a closed class. the opposite of fullwords.

2.    Phrase

         phrase is grammatical units consisting of a combination of words that are nonpredikatif or so-called combination of words that fill one function syntax in sentence. Forming phrase must free morpheme.

3.    Clause

         clause is a unit of syntax that consists of the words of runs berkonstruksi predicative. it means that there is a component in predicative form that serves as the predicate phrase and the other serves as an object, keterangan.selain predicate function that should exist in the construction of this clause is subject function may be said to be mandatory, while others are not mandatory.

4.    Sentence

      sentence is a unit that is directly used in the language. sentence is wording which regularly contains complete thoughts.