Fundamentals of grammar

  1. Morphology and syntax.
  2. Grammatical category, grammatical form and grammatical meaning.
  3. The theory of oppositions. Types of oppositions.
  4. Oppositional reduction. Neutralization and transposition.
  5. Distribution. Types of distribution. Distributional analysis.
  6. Morpheme. Morphemic analysis.

1. Morphology and syntax

The subject matter of morphology is the grammatical classes and groups of words, their grammatical categories and systems of forms (paradigms) in which these categories actually exist. Syntax examines the ways in which words may be combined and the relationships that exist between the words in combination.