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 superuous and inappropriate to try and condense such compendious material into a few pages in this book. e intention here is therefore to give a slightly dierent slant to the description of Spanish syntax by concentrating on a number of issues which may set you thinking further:
c What do we mean by a ‘sentence’? c How many dierent sentence types are there? c Why do sentences contain dierent types of constituent? c What is the relation between syntactic functions and meaning? c Do dierent registers of Spanish (see Chapter 7) have dierent syntaxes?
