The phrase "a component of grammar" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing elements that make up the structure and rules of a language.
Example: "In linguistics, a component of grammar such as syntax plays a crucial role in sentence formation."
Alternatives: "an element of grammar" or "a part of grammar".
Distributed Morphology, a theory of the architecture of grammar, rejects the lexicon as the component of grammar responsible for storing sound-meaning correspondences and for generating words and their internal structures, proposing instead that the various functions of the lexicon are distributed in various ways in the grammar.
We have to be able to see things in indeterminate ways: now this, now that, partly one thing, partly the other -- the transitivity system is a paradigm example, and that lies at the core of the experiential component of grammar.
LING 217, Language and Mind, studies knowledge of language as a component of the structure of the mind, including the nature of mental grammar and its neural implementation.
This article is concerned with the question as to whether the components of grammar (syntax, semantics and phonology) have a similar architecture.
According to Halliday ([1973]: 100): With only minor exceptions, whatever the speaker is doing with language he will draw on all three components of grammar.
In this way, the Subject element of structure has more of an independent existence in the theme component of the grammar than in that of mood; and the same is true of transitivity, where the Subject may combine with a wide range of different roles, varying, for example, from Actor to Carrier.
We hypothesized that impaired abstract thinking may interfere with the rules abstraction component of artificial grammar learning.
If a student has a lot of grammar errors, take the time to teach the grammar principle behind the mistake.
Typical of formal, academic language, this resource contrasts with the more congruent way in which such components of the Grammar of a language are expressed orally.
