Structural grammar
nš |
perspective |
comment |
examples |
1 |
Grammatical units |
units constituting
grammatical levels |
sub-morpheme, morpheme,
stem, word, phrase, clause,
sentence |
2 |
Grammatical
categories |
distributional classes of
units at each level. |
verb stem, finite verb, verb
phrase, verbal clause, cleft-sentence |
3 |
Syntagmatic
structure |
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3.1 |
Relations in
constructions |
sociation, dependency |
apposition, direct object |
3.2 |
Distribution |
position, obligatoriness of
components |
optional prenominal
position |
3.3 |
Operators |
grammatical formative
forming a binary
construction with the
operand |
sign with segmental
representation, affixation,
modification |
4 |
Paradigmatic
structure |
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4.1 |
Members of the
paradigm |
values of a grammatical
category |
case-number suffixes |
4.2 |
Variation in
members of the
paradigm |
allomorphy in the operator |
number allomorphy
conditioned by gender |
4.3 |
Variation in the
operand |
allomorphy of stem |
noun stem allomorphy
conditioned by number |