Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or conforming to the rules of syntax.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Conjoined; fitted to each other.
- In grammar, pertaining or according to the rules of syntax or construction.
- noun A branch of mathematics including permutations, combinations, variations, the binomial theorem, and other doctrines relative to the number of ways of putting things together under given conditions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to syntax; according to the rules of syntax, or construction.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, related to or connected with
syntax .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or conforming to the rules of syntax
Etymologies
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Examples
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Outside of poetic writing and certain syntactic alternations like topicalization, the word order of Modern English is Subject-Verb-Object.
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Outside of poetic writing and certain syntactic alternations like topicalization, the word order of Modern English is Subject-Verb-Object.
Whoever v. Whomever! Cases collide! Match of the Century! « Motivated Grammar 2009
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But for me, it was a bit worrisome — especially as I had recently been enjoying a resurgence of interest in syntactic research.
The serial, Harvard, or Oxford comma « Motivated Grammar 2008
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But for me, it was a bit worrisome — especially as I had recently been enjoying a resurgence of interest in syntactic research.
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Not the essential principle but a linguistic structure of arbitrary symbols in syntactic relationships, the structure of which maps to the morphological form of the essential principle.
A Response to a Response Hal Duncan 2007
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Not the essential principle but a linguistic structure of arbitrary symbols in syntactic relationships, the structure of which maps to the morphological form of the essential principle.
Archive 2007-04-01 Hal Duncan 2007
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In her "Introduction" to Kissing the Rod, Germaine Greer cautiously suggests that certain "syntactic patterns" tend to characterize much of the verse written by early modem women.
My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem 1993
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Jespersen also elaborated a theory of rank, de - signed to explicate the idea of syntactic rules.
STUDY OF LANGUAGE ALVAR ELLEG 1968
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Because of its double role, the word forms a kind of syntactic glue between the otherwise diverse subjects, joining them together in a unity.
Doctor, My Eyes 2009
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The Scheme community has come up with hygienic macro systems that let you write macros in Scheme, such as syntactic closures.
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