Sentence Analysis: Components, Structure, and Modality
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Unit 17: Sentence Components, Structures, and Conditions
From Aristotle to the present day, the definition of 'sentence' has been subject to numerous interpretations from logical, psychological, and grammatical perspectives. Therefore, we will summarize ideas about the sentence from antiquity (Aristotle, Dionysius Thrax, Priscian, etc.), the 18th century (Port Royal), and contemporary linguistics (Andrés Bello, Rafael Seco, Amado Alonso, Pedro Henríquez Ureña, SAR, Bloomfield, Hockett, Wundt, Paul, etc.):
- It is the logical expression of a judgment: if it expresses more than one judgment, it is a compound sentence, as opposed to simple sentences, which express only one.
- This judgment is expressed through predication, which then relates to a