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Assalamualaikum WR.WB HOW IS LIFE? In this my posting,I’m going to tell you about syntax,let’s read yaaaaa J " Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation of a given language has as its goal the construction of a grammar that can be viewed as a device of some sort for producing the sentences of the language under analysis."(Noam Chomsky, 2002:11) Chomsky mengatakan bahwa syntax adalah mata pelajaran/kuliah tentang prinsip-prinsip dan proses-proses dimana kalimat disusun dalam bahasa tertentu. Penelitian tentang syntax pada bahasa tertentu memiliki tujuannya tersendiri dimana susunan grammar  dapat dilihat sebagai alat untuk menghasilkan sebuah kalimat dalam sebuah bahasa. Pakar lain yang menjelaskan definisi syntax adalah Matthew, dikutip oleh Van Vallin dan LaPolla (1997:1), ia mengatakan: ‘The term ‘ syntax ’ is from the Ancient Greek syntaxis, a verbal noun whi...

  Introduction If you ask most non-linguists what the primary thing is that has to be learned if one is to ‘know’ a language, the answer is likely to be “the words of the language”. Learning vocabulary is a major focus of language instruction, and while everyone knows that there is a certain amount of ‘grammar’ that characterizes a language as well, even this is often treated as a kind of annotation to the set of words—the ‘uses of the Accusative’, etc. But what is it that is involved in knowing the words of a language? Obviously, a good deal of this is a matter of learning that cat , pronounced [k h æt], is a word of English, a noun that refers to a “feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar”. The notion that the word is a combination of sound and meaning—indeed, the unit in which the two are united—was the basis of the theory of the linguistic sign developed by Ferdinand deSaussure at the beginning of the 20 th century. But if words like...