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Chapter 4 （第四章） syntax（句法学） question With these words, how many grammatical sentences can we construct? e.g. the, the, student, hates, film, new, disgusting. the people, frightened, in the room, the boy SYNTAX SYNTAX is a branch of linguistics that studies how words are combined to form sentences and the rules that govern the formation of sentences. 1. Some basic concepts Syntactic units Syntactic relations Approaches to syntactic study 1.1 Syntactic units Hierarchical system: (morpheme-)word- phrase--clause—sentence e.g. I met Tom. a (handsome American young) man