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2.1. The basic unit of the syntactic analysis of the language is the word, which is the phonological unit and, at the same time, the morphological unit, as was said in 1.1. The word and the morpheme coincide, with the qualification made in 2.4.

2.2. Each of the units belongs to one of the major word classes.

2.3.1. The unites enter freely into the constructions to be described, except that a small part of the lexicon (perhaps one-sixth; see 1.1) is restricted to occurrence with

2.3.2.

2.4.