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English
Etymology
From New Latin syntacticus, from Ancient Greek συντακτικός (suntaktikós).
Pronunciation
Adjective
syntactic (comparative more syntactic, superlative most syntactic)
- 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.
- 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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Further reading
- “syntactic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “syntactic”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.