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The large syntagmatic outlined above also consitutes a pardigmatic category - since, at any given moment in the making of his film, the film-maker must choose from a limited series of types of syntagmatic ordering. Thus we have paradigms of syntagmas, and, to a certain extent, this situation resembles that which exists in the syntaxes of many languages (example: the choice among several types of clause: final clause, consecutive clause, and so on).
"Paradigmatic" and "syntagmatic" must not . . . be assimilated, respectively, to "smallest units" and "largest units." The distinction between ordering and choice is one thing; the distinction between large segments and small segments is something else. (Metz, p. 137.)
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