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
  • Predicate
  • Subject
  • Object
  • Agent – remove this?
  • Patient – remove this?
  • Modifier phrases
  • Adverbials and adjuncts
• Declarative sentences (Predicates)
• Imperative
• Questions
  • General questions
  • Alternative questions
  • Special questions
  • Disjunctive questions
  • Indirect questions
• Negative
• Impersonal constructions
• Existential clause (“There be …”)
• Expressions of absence
• Expressions of possession
• Parenthetic and interpositional clauses
• Compound and Complex sentences, Tense sequence
• Direct and Indirect speech
• Analytic constructions
• Archaic style

In languages with Nominative-Accusative morphosyntactic alignment the subject is distinguished from object in any sentence despite the transitivity of verb in 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 are the most common type of sentences. They inform about some action, fact or event. The typical word order in standard Nûrlâm is Subject–Verb–Object (SVO). Indirect objects are placed after direct objects. Nouns in locative or marginal case are not objects but usually an adverbials, so they don't follow this word order.