Morphology and Syntax

Grammar
Morphology
Syntax

Morphology- is the branch of linguistics, that studies the structure of words.

Syntax - is the study of sentence patterns of language.

Structure of the language
Grammar - the main role
Phonetics, Lexis - secondary role

Lexis main characteristic
abstractiveness
A word “будинок” means any building regardless of form, size and material.

Grammar main characteristic
abstractiveness
But abstractiveness of grammar has higher value than abstractiveness of lexis.
For lexis words “a house”, “a car”, “a doctor”, “a table”, “a window” have same meaning and value. But for grammar all the words are singular nouns.

Principal linguistic units
For morphology For syntax
Morpheme Sentence

Extended variation of linguistic units: a word, a wordform, a collocation, a simple sentence, a сomplex sentence and even a text.