syntactic

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Pronunciation

/sɪnˈtæktɪk/

Definition of syntactic

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

Of, related to or connected with syntax.

“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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adj

Of, related to or connected with syntax.

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

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