Criteria of structural description 16.06.2026
Criteria of structural grammar
perspectivecommentexamples
1Grammatical unitsunits constituting grammatical levelssub-morpheme, morpheme, stem, word, phrase, clause, sentence
2Grammatical categoriesdistributional classes of units at each level.verb stem, finite verb, verb phrase, verbal clause, cleft-sentence
3Syntagmatic structure
3.1Relations in constructionssociation, dependencyapposition, direct object
3.2Distributionposition, obligatoriness of componentsoptional prenominal position
3.3Operatorsgrammatical formative forming a binary construction with the operandsign with segmental representation, affixation, modification
4Paradigmatic structure
4.1Members of the paradigmvalues of a grammatical categorycase-number suffixes
4.2Variation in members of the paradigmallomorphy in the operatornumber allomorphy conditioned by gender
4.3Variation in the operandallomorphy of stemnoun stem allomorphy conditioned by number