Issues to be discussed: 1. The basic units of syntax: the phrase and the sentence.
2. The phrase in the hierarchy of language units.
3. Differential features of the phrase and of the sentence.
4. The notion of collocation and its semantic status.
5. The traditional part of speech classification of phrases.
Nominative classification of phrases.
6.
Types
of
syntactic
connections:
coordination,
subordination, accumulation.
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7. Agreement and government as two main types of
syntactic relations.
8. Classification of word combinations in structuralism.
9. Adjoinment and enclosure as special means of
expressing syntactic relations.