syntactic
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Directly borrowed from Ancient Greek συντακτικός (suntaktikós), or from syntax + -ic.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
syntactic (comparative more syntactic, superlative most syntactic)
- 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.
- Containing morphemes that are combined in the same order as they would be if they were separate words e.g. greenfinch
Synonyms[edit]
- (of, related to or connected with syntax): syntactical
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Further reading[edit]
- “syntactic” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “syntactic” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Categories:
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *teh₂g- (order)
- English terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English words suffixed with -ic
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/æktɪk
- Rhymes:English/æktɪk/3 syllables
- English lemmas
- English adjectives
- English relational adjectives