syntactic

Definition

Of, related to or connected with syntax.

Etymology

From New Latin syntacticus, from Ancient Greek συντακτικός (suntaktikós).

Example Sentences

• "The sentence “I saw he” contains a syntactic mistake."
• "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."

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