ABSTRACT
In accordance with the plan stated above, the syntactic statement will be skeletal and incomplete. It is intended merely as an indication of the framework into which the detailed morphological statement fits, and as a sketch of the general structure of the simple Hebrew sentence. Syntactic and morphological considerations may be interrelated in the process of grammar construction, since we are seeking the simplest total set of transformations. Thus if the morphology were presented independently of syntactic considerations, one might consider the various forms of plural and feminine suffixes to be parts of special vowel patterns, added to roots to make up stems. But this would hide the characteristic feature of these as long components, i.e., components of phrases or sentences rather than of words. Such a formulation would greatly complicate the syntactic statement. Consequently the syntactic statement must be detailed enough so that all
