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Syntax » Focus & Content » Traditional Grammar

Syntactic Theory


Traditional Grammar

  • Basic Units of Syntactic Analysis: Words and Sentences
  • Parts of Speech
    • Major Parts of Speech
      • The Noun
        • Problems with the tests
        • Subgroups of nouns
      • The Verb
        • Problems with the tests
      • The Adjective
      • The Adverb
      • (The Preposition)
    • Minor Parts of Speech
      • Determiner
      • Auxiliary
      • Pronouns
      • Conjunction
      • Complementizer
      • Particle
      • Infinitival to
      • Negative marker not
  • Constituents and Phrasal Categories
    • The Noun Phrase
    • The Verb Phrase
    • The Adjective Phrase
    • The Preposition Phrase
  • Grammatical Functions
    • The Predicate
    • The Subject
    • The Direct Object
    • The Indirect Object
    • The Predicative Complement
    • The Oblique Complement
    • The Modifier
  • General Grammatical Functions: Head, Complement, Modifier and Specifier
    • The Head
    • The Complement
    • The Modifier
    • The Specifier
  • Six Steps in a Syntactic Analysis
    • Step 1
    • Step 2
    • Step 3
    • Step 4
    • Step 5
    • Step 6
  • Semantic Roles
  • Passive (discussed in the GB section and in the HPSG section)
  • Binding Theory (discussed in the GB section and in the HPSG section)
  • Relative Clauses

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