Syntax and the word combination

Language units combine step by step: sounds form words and suffixes, and these form word combinations and sentences. The way words enter into connection with each other in a sentence is called syntactic connection, and the branch that studies these connections is syntax. Two or more independent words joining in meaning and grammar form a word combination. Four conditions are needed: the words are independent, their meanings fit each other, one depends on the other, and they are linked by a suffix, a postposition or word order. In a combination the dependent word explains the head word and usually comes before it. “Ukam uchun” is not a combination, because “uchun” is not an independent word.