====== Syntax and Word Order in Nûrlâm ======
This page is the hub for articles on syntax of [[Nûrlâm]] dialect.

**//Syntax//** is the study about how individual words and morphemes combine into larger units: words < phrases < clauses < sentences. This includes word order, word agreement, grammatical relations, agreement of larger structures.

  * Syntactical categories
    * [[syntax_predicate|Predicate]]
    * [[syntax_subject|Subject]]
    * [[syntax_object|Object]]
    * [[syntax_agent|Agent]] -- <todo !!>remove this?</todo>
    * [[syntax_patient|Patient]] -- <todo !!>remove this?</todo>
    * [[syntax_determiner|Modifier phrases]]
    * [[syntax_adverbials|Adverbials and adjuncts]]
  * [[syntax#declarative_sentences|Declarative]] sentences (Predicates) 
  * [[mood_imperative|Imperative]]
  * [[mood_interrogative#questions|Questions]]
    * [[mood_interrogative#General_questions|General questions]]
    * [[mood_interrogative#Alternative_questions|Alternative questions]]
    * [[mood_interrogative#Special_questions|Special questions]]
    * [[mood_interrogative#Disjunctive_questions|Disjunctive questions]]
    * [[mood_interrogative#Indirect_questions|Indirect questions]]
  * [[syntax_negative|Negative]]
  * [[syntax_impersonal|Impersonal constructions]]
  * [[syntax_existential|Existential clause]] ("There be ...")
  * [[syntax_absence|Expressions of absence]]
  * [[syntax_possession|Expressions of possession]]
  * [[syntax_direction|Expressions of direction]]
  * [[syntax_parenthesis|Parenthetic and interpositional clauses]]
  * [[syntax_homogenous|Homogenous parts of the sentence]] (e.g. listing)
  * [[syntax_complex|Compound and Complex sentences, Tense sequence]]
  * [[syntax_direct_speech|Direct and Indirect speech]]
  * [[syntax_analytic|Analytic constructions]]
  * [[archaic_style|Archaic style]]

In languages with **//Nominative-Accusative//** morphosyntactic alignment the [[syntax_subject|subject]] is distinguished from [[syntax_object|object]] in any sentence despite the transitivity of [[grammar_verb|verb]] in [[syntax_predicate|predicate]]. This distinction may be expressed by [[morphology]] and/or syntax. Majority of Indo-European languages are Nominative-Accusative, and Nûrlâm as well.

===== Declarative sentences =====
**//Declarative sentences//** are the most common type of sentences. They inform about some event or may describe an object. Declarative sentences do not require any action or response from listener.

The typical word order in standard Nûrlâm is Subject--Verb--Object (SVO). //Indirect// objects are placed **after** //direct// objects. Nouns in locative or marginal [[grammar_case|case]] are not objects but usually an [[syntax_adverbials|adverbials]], so they don't follow this word order.