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from Greek.

Topics

The field of syntax has a number of topics that a syntactic theory is designed to explain. The relation between the topics is treated differently in different theories, and some of them may not be considered to be distinct but instead to be derived from one another (e.g., word order can be seen as the result of movement rules derived from grammatical relations).

Sequencing of subject, verb, and object

One basic description of a language's syntax is the sequence in which the subject

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