Syntax Sphere
Mohamed Zakaria Kurdi · 2016
Syntax is a key branch of linguistics and focuses on the scientific study of the structure of the sentence as an independent unit. Compared to morphology, syntax is distinguished by the fact that it focuses on the relationships between words, whereas morphology focuses on variations of word forms. Parsing consists of the decomposition of sentences in major syntactic units and of the identification of dependency relationships. This analysis often leads to a graphical representation in the form of a box according to the original approach proposed by the American linguist Charles Francis Hockett. Definite clause grammar (DCG) is a logical representation of linguistic grammars. The concept of clause is transdisciplinary to the extent that it is used in a variety of disciplines such as linguistics and logic. A syntax tree is a non-oriented and acyclic graph consisting of nodes connected by arcs.