syntax languagen.
/ˈsɪntaks ˌlaŋɡwɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈsɪnˌtæks ˌlæŋɡwɪdʒ/ Logic and Philosophy.
A metalanguage used to describe or refer to the syntax of another language. Cf. object language n. 2. Chiefly with reference to the work of the German philosopher Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970).
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1935 Mind 44 501 Carnap seeks to found a rigorous formal syntax of formal syntax. But formal syntax requires a language of which it is the syntax. This language is called the ‘object-language’ (Objektsprache) in distinction from the syntax-language.
1956 A. Church Introd. Math. Logic 58 The meta-language used in order to study the logistic system..is called the syntax language.
2000 M. Friedman in J. H. Fetzer Sci., Explan., & Rationality i. 54 There is no room..for a metalanguage or syntax language describing the process of empirical testing from some idealized point of view outside the language of empirical science itself.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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