Dictionary

syntactic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /sɪnˈtæktɪk/
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Etymology

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

Meanings

1. Of, related to or connected with syntax.
   • The sentence “I saw he” contains a syntactic mistake.
   • Sometimes, a preposition like of just marks the function from a noun, as in the picture of the dog. Here, the function is picture, and of is a purely syntactic marker of the argument of picture, the dog. In this case, there is no semantics for the preposition of. 2025, Edward A. F. Gibson, “Dependency Grammar” (chapter 3), in Syntax: A Cognitive Approach, MIT Press, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 68–69:
   • 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. 2001, Martin Haspelmath, Language Typology and Language Universals: An International Handbook, page 674:
2. Containing morphemes that are combined in the same order as they would be if they were separate words e.g. greenfinch

Forms

Deriveds

syntactic salt · nonsyntactic · metasyntactic · syntactic expletive · unsyntactic · protosyntactic · morphosyntactic · syntacticize · syntactician · macrosyntactic · grammaticosyntactic · antisyntactic · syntacticist · microsyntactic · postsyntactic · syntactically · syntactic sugar · syntacticise · lexicosyntactic · asyntactic · syntacticism · nanosyntactic · syntactic middle voice

Relateds

syntax

Synonyms

syntactical (of, related to or connected with syntax)

Translations (32)

pl syntaktyczny (of, related to or connected with syntax) · ro sintactic (of, related to or connected with syntax) · bg синтакти́чен (of, related to or connected with syntax) · gl sintáctico (of, related to or connected with syntax) · kk синтаксистік (of, related to or connected with syntax) · uk синтакси́чний (of, related to or connected with syntax) · ja 統語的な (of, related to or connected with syntax) · pl składniowy (of, related to or connected with syntax) · tl palaugnayin (of, related to or connected with syntax) · nl syntactisch (of, related to or connected with syntax) · fr syntactique (of, related to or connected with syntax) · ca sintàctic (of, related to or connected with syntax) · tr sözdizimsel (of, related to or connected with syntax) · fi syntaktinen (of, related to or connected with syntax) · de syntaktisch (of, related to or connected with syntax) · es sintáctico (of, related to or connected with syntax) · nb syntaktisk (of, related to or connected with syntax) · sk syntaktický (of, related to or connected with syntax) · it sintattico (of, related to or connected with syntax) · fi lauseopillinen (of, related to or connected with syntax) · el συντακτικός (of, related to or connected with syntax) · eo sintaksa (of, related to or connected with syntax) · ru синтакси́ческий (of, related to or connected with syntax) · sv syntaktisk (of, related to or connected with syntax) · fr syntaxique (of, related to or connected with syntax) · nn syntaktisk (of, related to or connected with syntax) · pt sintático (of, related to or connected with syntax) · ga comhréireach (of, related to or connected with syntax) · cs syntaktický (of, related to or connected with syntax) · be сінтаксі́чны (of, related to or connected with syntax) · da syntaktisk (of, related to or connected with syntax) · hu szintaktikai (of, related to or connected with syntax)