syntactic
/sɪnˈtaktɪk
/adjective
Of or according to syntax: syntactic analysis...
- Here's another case where it seems that a common syntactic pattern is a grammatical confusion.
- As the main or only word in the noun phrase, it has the same set of syntactic functions as a noun.
- In such grammars, conflicts among semantic and syntactic constraints are resolved in terms of ranking.
Derivatives
syntactical
- In language, listeners build structure out of nouns, verbs and other syntactical elements.
- I believe there is an integrity that is lost when a piece chosen for exhibiting masterful writing skill is chopped down to mere syntactical proficiency and stripped of its essence.
- Where sentence completion is required, production of the derived form may be driven by various aspects of the linguistic context such as syntactical properties.
syntactically
/ adverb ...- The claim goes roughly as follows: collective nouns are syntactically singular but semantically (or ‘notionally’ in this literature) plural.
- Well, there are no syntactically incoherent sentences, anyhow.
- The result is more fluent prosodically, though incoherent syntactically.
Origin
Early 19th century: from Greek suntaktikos, from suntassein 'arrange together' (see syntax).