Topic: " Difference Between Syntax & Semantics"

Topic: " Difference Between Syntax & Semantics"
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Definition: Syntax: A sub-discipline of linguistic
that studies the structure of a sentence.
(1) What is Syntax
Syntax is a sub-discipline of linguistics
that studies the structure of a
sentence. It studies the set of rules,
principles, and processes that rule the
structure of sentences in any language.
Here, the term structure of sentence
refers to the word order. The meaning
of a sentence can depend on the word
order.
For example, look at the two
examples below.
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Example 1
Because banana he is ate a
hungry.
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Example 2
He ate a banana because he is
hungry.
The first example doesn’t make any
sense, but if you look carefully, it
contains the same words as the second
example. The only difference exists in
the word order. Therefore, the word
order is a key element in the syntax.
However, this does not mean that
syntax is about meaning. A sentence
can be syntactically correct, yet have
no meaning.
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《Colorless, green ideas sleep
furiously》
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Though the above sentence does not
make any sense, it is syntactically
correct. In this sentence, you can notice
that adjectives , adverbs are placed in
the correct order and, subject and verb
are in accordance with each other.
In terms of syntactical categories, most
sentences in any language can be
divided as subject and predicate .
Syntax usually studies sentences that
have a clear inner division into subject
and predicate. There are three types of
sentences with this structure; simple
sentence, compound sentence, and
complex sentence.
In addition, words and phrases in a
language can be categorized according
to their function in a sentence.
Syntactical classes of words are called
parts of speech.
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Definition: Semantics: A sub-discipline of linguistic
that studies the meaning of words and
sentences.
(2) What is Semantics
Semantics is a branch of linguistics
that focuses on the study of meaning. It
studies the meaning of words and
language. Semantics study ways in
which the meanings of words can be
related to each other (synonyms,
homophony, etc.), ways in which the
meanings of sentences can be related
to each other, and ambiguity. Ambiguity
is one way of studying the meaning of
language. A sentence is said to be
ambiguous when it has more than one
meaning.
For example,
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I saw the girl with binoculars.
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This sentence has two meanings. One
meaning is that I saw a girl while I was
looking through the binoculars. The
other is that I saw a girl who was using
binoculars.