Syntactic

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sɪnˈtæktɪk/

Origin

From Greek σύνταξις ("a joining together, syntax"); see syntax.

Full definition of syntactic

Adjective

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.

Synonyms

• syntactical

Related terms

• syntax