MODERN APPROACH TO SYNTAX

Today, syntax is considered the most developed and, to a certain extent, the most widely studied branch of linguistics. Language performs three functions, namely, to provide communication, to convey a certain information, message to the listener or reader, and to influence the listener or reader, through its most basic unit, the syntactic device - the sentence. However, these functions are realized with the help of sounds, words, and word combinations in the language. Accordingly, it can be said that the sentence encompasses all of these units. Accordingly, syntax, which in ancient Greek means “structure, order, combination”, is expressed in the following in science: 1) the formation of speech units