Agrammatism is associated with Broca’s aphasia, characterized by slow effortful speech and virtually no
inflections or functional morphemes. Paragrammatism (sometimes described as paraphasia) is associated
with Wernicke’s aphasia, mainly because speech is fluent, with normal intonation, yet there seem to be
word-finding difficulties, leading to a disrupted type of speech. It is believed that the word-finding
difficulties, especially with nouns, make the speaker change the sentence structure in order to get round
the problem, perhaps seeking another way to express the idea. In paragrammatism, the syntax of the
sentence fragments is always normal (not simplified as in agrammatism), but there often seems to be no
connection between one fragment and the next, making speech sound fluent, but incomprehensible.
The extract looks more like disrupted fluent speech than slow speech minus functional morphemes, so
it is more likely to be characterized as paragrammatism.