Sentence structure: functions in the English language

Jovanovska, Sashka and Talevska, Marija and Tashkoska, Marija (2024) Sentence structure: functions in the English language. Academy Global Publishing House (15). pp. 560-567. ISSN 978-625-6830-90-5

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Abstract

Understanding the structure of a sentence involves knowing not only what its constituents are,
but also the category and the function of those constituents (Burton-Roberts, 2016, p.7). Also,
these three aspects of syntactic analysis are closely bound up with one another. This paper is
mainly about syntactic functions, and about how function relates to category and constituency.
A systematic sentence analysis is best begun, not by immediately considering the words in the
sentence, but by first identifying the very largest phrases – those phrases which are immediate
constituents, not of any other phrase, but of the sentence itself. So, the first illustration of the
relationship between constituents, their categories and their functions, will concern the
functions and categories of the immediate constituents of the sentence itself.
Key words: sentences, functions, subject, predicate, clauses

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Humanities > Languages and literature Humanities > Other humanities
Divisions:	Faculty of Philology
Depositing User:	Saska Jovanovska
Date Deposited:	28 Mar 2024 09:34
Last Modified:	28 Mar 2024 09:34
URI:	https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/33886

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