Syntax

In Linguistics, syntax is "the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages". It assumes that:

• natural language sentences can be broken down into components (the so-called syntactic constituents);
• the resulting structure is hierarchical (a tree-like structure) rather than a simple list; and
• the structure can be predicted by rules (i.e., the structure is regular), which consist the grammar of the language.