The Grammatical Structure of a Language

The grammatical signals have a meaning of their own independent of the meaning of the notional words. This can be illustrated by the following sentence with nonsensical words: Woggles ugged diggles. According to Ch. Fries (32) the morphological and the syntactic signals in the given sentence make us understand that “several actors acted upon some objects”. This sentence which is a syntactic signal, makes the listener understand it as a declarative sentence whose grammatical meaning is actor - action - thing acted upon.

1) Grammatical Structure

2) Grammatical meaning

3) Types of grammatical meaning

4) Grammatical categories

5) Grammatical categories are subdivided into several types