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Parts of Grammars

Grammars are composed of several different parts, each of which will be approached separately throughout this paper. Fromkin and Rodman point out that most people consider a language's grammar to be solely the syntactic rules. In comparison, linguistic grammars consist of phonology (the sound system), semantics (the system of meanings), morphology (the rules of word formation), syntax (the rules of sentence formation), and lexicons (the vocabulary of words). Every language has these parts, and each follows similar rules. Each part of the linguistic grammar is essential; without any one, linguistic knowledge is incomplete.

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