Sentence examples for components of grammar from inspiring English sources

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.

We are all familiar with basic components of grammar like tense.

Current linguistic formalisms either reflect the formal-language tradition (with semantics as a component of grammar) or psychology-based traditions (with semantics external to 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.

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.

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.

The second is the number and identity of the meta-functions and associated components of the grammar.

If a full description of the clause consists in bringing together its description in terms of all the components of the grammar, how does a part of an element of one kind (the Subject as part of the Mood element) combine with the whole of an element of a different kind, such as Theme or Actor?

Working within the framework of the Computational Grammatical Complexity Hypothesis, which stresses how different components of the grammar interact, we tested whether children were able to use phonotactic cues to parse reversible passive sentences of the form the X was verbed by Y.

Hearing people say this in part, I think, because sign languages require body and facial movement as components of their grammar, and these movements are often congruous with natural facial and body responses to an emotion or concept.