metasyntactic

English

Etymology

meta- +‎ syntactic

Adjective

metasyntactic (not comparable)

1. (linguistics, computing) Used in describing syntax; relating to metasyntax.
   • 2001, John N. Shutt in What is Grammar?

     Metasyntactic values, in the sense I'm using here, are descriptive of syntax, as for example the nonterminals of a Chomsky grammar.

Related terms

• metasyntactic variable