Nah, teman teman saya akan menjelaskan APA ITU SYNTAX
Simple Definition of syntax
-
linguistics : the way in which words are put together to form phrases, clauses, or sentences.
Examples of syntax in a sentence
- Everyone has good days and bad days. Her syntax is sometimes a world unto itself. But George H.W. Bush occasionally sounded as though English were more foe than friend, and he was an astute president who managed complexity with skill and balance. —Jon Meacham, Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2008
- Coming from a great distance and wholly unrelated to the Teutonic, Latin and Slav languages that fence it in, Hungarian has remained miraculously intact. Everything about the language is different, not only the words themselves, but the way they are formed, the syntax and grammar and above all the cast of mind that brought them into being. —Patrick Leigh Fermor, Between the Woods and the Water, 1986
- “I saw that she a cookie ate” is an example of incorrect syntax.http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/syntax
Function of Syntax
To convey meaning is one of the main functions of syntax. In literature, writers utilize syntax and diction to achieve certain artistic effects like mood, tone etc. Like diction, syntax aims to affect the readers as well as express the writer’s attitude.
Syntax Examples
Syntax in Poetry
The general word order of an English sentence is “Subject+Verb+Object”. In poetry, however, the word order may be shifted to achieve certain artistic effects such as producing rhythm or melody in the lines, achieving emphasis, heightening connection between two words etc. The unique syntax used in poetry makes it different from prose. Let us consider the following examples of syntax:
Example #1
In casual conversations, we can simply say, “I cannot go out” to convey our inability to go out. P J Kavanagh’s in his poem Beyond Decoration does not rely on merely stating a prosaic “I cannot go out”. Rather, he shifts the syntax and says “Go out I cannot”, which lays a much stronger emphasis on the inability to go out conveyed by the word “cannot”.
Levels of syntax
Computer language syntax is generally distinguished into three levels:
- Words – the lexical level, determining how characters form tokens;
- Phrases – the grammar level, narrowly speaking, determining how tokens form phrases;
- Context – determining what objects or variables names refer to, if types are valid, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax_%28programming_languages%29
The table below summarizes three approaches to syntax and what they mean for theories of speech origins.
Generative grammar, as founded by Noam Chomsky, is famously Cartesian in its preference for innate knowledge, its view that there is an irretrievable divide between the basis of animal thought and linguistic thought, and its search for mathematical completeness in its formulations. These old ideas took specific form in Chomsky’s neo-Cartesianism:
- Innateness: syntactic structures are universal and built into everyone. Although it is patently obvious that spoken languages have many different forms, there is a common, underlying logic to them all.
- Difference: syntactical speech is so different from anything found in the animal world that there is no point in looking to evolution for any insights into its nature.
- Completeness: meaning emerges from the individual words and the syntactic rules that combine them.
