syntactic
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From Greek σύνταξις (súntaxis, “a joining together, syntax”); see syntax.
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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
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- syntactic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- syntactic in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
