referring to the relationships among linguistic elements that form a sequence in speech or writing, for example the relationship between ‘The girl’ and ‘is singing’ in the sentence ‘The girl is singing’
Synonyms and related words
Describing words, clauses and sentences
anaphoric
cataphoric
compound
See alsoparadigmatic
syntagmatic
adjectivelinguistics
US /ˌsɪntæɡˈmætɪk/
DEFINITIONS1
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referring to the relationships among linguistic elements that form a sequence in speech or writing, for example the relationship between “The girl” and “is singing” in the sentence “The girl is singing”