Syntactic and Semantic Analysis
The description of a sentence is a syntactic analysis. The description of a proposition is a semantic analysis. A syntactic analysis is an account of the lexemes and function words in a sentence, describing how these combine into phrases, and showing the functions that these lexemes and phrases have in the sentence. There are somewhat different ways of doing syntactic analysis, but generally these sentence functions are recognized: subject, predicate, object, complement and adverbial.
Note that every lexeme and function word is assigned to one of the syntactic functions, subject, predicate, etc., and these functions are listed in the order they have in the sentence.
The semantic analysis deals with meaning, the proposition expressed in the sentence, not necessarily with all the function words in the sentence. In semantic analysis we first separate Inflection from Proposition.
When Inflection—including Tense—is separated from Proposition, we see that the forms of the verb be (am, is, are, was, were) have no meaning. They are clearly part of the syntactic structure of sentences but not of the semantic structure.
Note that every lexeme and function word is assigned to one of the syntactic functions, subject, predicate, etc., and these functions are listed in the order they have in the sentence.
The semantic analysis deals with meaning, the proposition expressed in the sentence, not necessarily with all the function words in the sentence. In semantic analysis we first separate Inflection from Proposition.
When Inflection—including Tense—is separated from Proposition, we see that the forms of the verb be (am, is, are, was, were) have no meaning. They are clearly part of the syntactic structure of sentences but not of the semantic structure.
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