On Syntactic Complexity in English Language

Zhang Zhiqin

Abstract


English is a language of hypotaxis, which means the language depends on syntactic and lexical devices to form one sentence or sentences. The paper discusses the syntactic relations and illustrates the syntactic complexity with examples. The paper focuses on the ambiguities caused by different factors to highlight the syntactic complexity of English.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22158/eshs.v5n2p25

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