ABSTRACT
In this chapter we are going to look at some features of Spanish syntax, or sentence structure. Spanish syntax is on the whole very well described in the large reference grammars of Spanish, and it would be superfluous and inappropriate to try and condense such compendious material into a few pages in this book. The intention here is therefore to give a slightly different slant to the description of Spanish syntax by concentrating on a number of issues which may set you thinking further:
● What do we mean by a ‘sentence’? ● How many different sentence types are there? ● Why do sentences contain different types of constituent? ● What is the relation between syntactic functions and meaning? ● Do different registers of Spanish (see Chapter 7) have different syntaxes?
