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POETRY : ON LANGUAGE FORM AND PATTERN
Dr. Anjum Islam
Abstract:
Language is patterned on a more abstract level than phonology or graphology this level of abstraction is called ‘form’. There are two components of the level ‘form’ grammar and lexis, each including different kinds of patterns. Patterns of grammar are more general and fewer in number than those-of lexis. Grammar patterns include categories like word, clause, sentence, subject complement, noun, adverb and even sets of words like ‘and’, ‘if’, ‘you’ and so forth. Each of these categories and sets also has a meaning. The categories of grammar being very general, give us only a skeleton of a text. Grammar can inform us that someone is doing something to someone else, but it is the lexical items which tell us whom or what these general roles refer to Lexis is a part of form having its own distinguishing patterns and relations.