PART 5 Syntax

The major syntactic constituents of a language are clauses and phrases. This part of the grammar is organized into six chapters. The first three chapters focus on the properties of clauses. The first chapter describes how main clause types (declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamative, and negative) are formed in TÄ°D. The second chapter delves into the internal structure of clauses and describes predicate types and their arguments, word order, and syntactic phenomena such as clausal ellipsis and pronoun copying. The third chapter moves to the properties of complex clauses and describes the various strategies that TÄ°D employs for coordination and subordination of clauses. The fourth, fifth, and sixth chapters describe the internal structure of three remaining major syntactic categories, namely the noun phrase, the adjective phrase, and the adverb phrase.