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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Partly from Late Latin syntaxis and partly from its etymon, Ancient Greek σύνταξις (súntaxis), from σύν (sún, “together”) τάξις (táxis, “arrangement”), from τάσσω (tássō, “I arrange”).[1] Doublet of syntaxis.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]syntax (countable and uncountable, plural syntaxes)
- A set of rules that govern how words are combined to form phrases and sentences.
- 1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 8, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 410:
- The incorporation of a rule of V MOVEMENT into our description of English Syntax turns out to have fundamental theoretical implications for our overall Theory of Grammar: it means that we are no longer able to posit that the syntactic structure of a sentence can be described in terms of a single Phrase-marker representing its S-structure. For, the postulation of a rule of V-MOVEMENT means that we must recognise at least two different levels of structure in our Theory of Grammar — namely, a level of D-structure (formerly known as ‘Deep Structureʼ) which serves as input to the rule, and a separate level of S-structure which is formed by application of the rule.
- (computing, countable) The formal rules of formulating the statements of a computer language.
- (linguistics) The study of the structure of phrases, sentences, and language.
Usage notes
[edit]The joke plural syntices occasionally occurs in blogs (by false analogy with matrix etc.).
Synonyms
[edit]- (grammar): syntaxis
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]set of rules that govern how words are combined
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formal rules of a computer language
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study of the structure of phrases and sentences
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “syntax, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Czech
[edit]Noun
[edit]syntax f (related adjective syntaktický)
Declension
[edit]Slovak
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]syntax f
Declension
[edit]Declension of syntax
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “syntax”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]syntax c
Declension
[edit]Declension of syntax | ||||
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Nominative | syntax | syntaxen | syntaxer | syntaxerna |
Genitive | syntax | syntaxens | syntaxers | syntaxernas |
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