syntactic

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /sɪnˈtæktɪk/

Adjective

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.

2. Containing morphemes that are combined in the same order as they would be if they were separate words e.g. greenfinch

Synonyms

• (of, related to or connected with syntax) syntactical

Related terms

• syntax

Translations

• French: syntaxique, syntactique
• German: syntaktisch
• Italian: sintattico
• Portuguese: sintático
• Russian: синтаксический
• Spanish: sintáctico

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