... College of Foreign languages Compiled by Nguyen Van Huy Than Trong Lien Nhan HCFL CHAPTER INTRODUCTION TO SYNTAX I Introduction SYNTAX is the central component of human language Language has often ... demonstratives, e.g English here, German hier, Spanish aqui versus English there, German da, Spanish ahi versus English yonder, German dort, Spanish alii Quantifiers, as the label implies, express quantity-related ... after their object English (and Spanish) have only prepositions, e.g English in, on, under, to, (Spanish en, a, con,) whereas Japanese and Korean have only postpositions German has both: in dem...