A LIST OF SOME LESS FAMILIAR TERMS

Asyndetic sentence:a sentence whose clauses are not connected either by a conjunction or by any other connective (compare Syndetic sentence)

Complex sentence:a sentence containing one or more subordinate clauses

Composite sentence:a sentence consisting of more than one clause, whether compound or complex

Compound sentence:a sentence consisting of two or more co-ordinated clauses

Correlation:a name suggested for the grammatical category which finds its expression in the difference between non-perfect and perfect forms, e. g. took / had taken

Functional sentence perspective:division of a sentence into its theme (the starting point) and rheme (the new information supplied)

Junction:a connection of two words or phrases without any predicative relation between them, as in a new house, a barking dog

Nexus:any connection of two words or phrases with a predicative relation between them, as in he spoke; I heard him speak

Opposition:any relation between two grammatical forms differing in meaning and in external signs, e. g. street / streets; take / took

Rheme:that element of a sentence which contains the new information; opposed to theme (see also Functional sentence perspective)

Stative:a part of speech expressing the state a subject is in, and characterised by the prefix a-, e. g. asleep, ablaze, astir

Syndetic sentence:a composite sentence whose clauses are connected either by a conjunction or by some other connective (mainly a relative pronoun or relative adverb)

Theme:that element of a sentence which contains the starting point, as opposed to rheme (see also Functional sentence perspective)