syntactic

English

Etymology

From Greek σύνταξις (“a joining together, syntax”); see syntax.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sɪnˈtæktɪk/, SAMPA: /sIn"t{ktIk/

Adjective

syntactic (comparative more syntactic, superlative most syntactic)

1. Of, related to or connected with syntax.

   The sentence “I saw he” contains a syntactic mistake.

   • 2001, Martin Haspelmath, Language Typology and Language Universals: An International Handbook, page 674:

     the rules specifying how agglutinative morphemes are combined with each other are more syntactic than morphological by their nature and thus are closer to rules specifying how word-forms are combined with each other.

Synonyms

• syntactical

Related terms

• syntax

Translations

of, related to or connected with syntax

Catalan: sintàctic (ca) Dutch: syntactisch (nl) Esperanto: sintaksa (eo)

Finnish: syntaktinen (fi) French: syntaxique (fr) Spanish: sintáctico (es)

External links

• syntactic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• syntactic in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911