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Type Words
Synonyms phrase structure, sentence structure
Type of structure
Derivation syntactic, syntactical, syntactician
Type Words
Type of system, scheme
Type Words
Type of grammar
Has types generative grammar
Derivation syntactic, syntactical, syntactician

Examples of syntax

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His syntax occasionally fails him, and he sometimes wobbles on the finer points.
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It is an improvement of the current syntax and it does makes the syntax clearer.
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Research is conducted in syntax, phonology, morphology, phonetics and semantics.
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A syntactic category is a type of syntactic unit that theories of syntax assume.
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A shorter alternative is to use empty pipe syntax, also known as the pipe trick.
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And when you attack him for his malaprops, his jumbled syntax, it's good for us.
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The rhyming is usually deft, but the syntax often pays the price in convolution.
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The syntax might be awkward, but the sentiment, like the plagiarism, is genuine.
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One of these days I'll have to learn my way around the syntax of these diagrams.
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  • The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
  • A systematic orderly arrangement
  • Studies of the rules for forming admissible sentences
  • In linguistics, syntax (/u02C8su026Anu02CCtu00E6ks/) is the set of rules, principles, and processes that govern the structure of sentences in a given language, specifically word order. The term syntax is also used to refer to the study of such principles and processes. The goal of many syntacticians is to discover the syntactic rules common to all languages.
  • In computer science, SYNTAX is a system used to generate lexical and syntactic analyzers (parsers) (both deterministic and non-deterministic) for all kind of context-free grammars (CFGs) as well as some classes of contextual grammars. ...
  • Syntax is an English electronic music group originally formed by Mike Tournier and Jan Burton in 2002.
  • Syntax: A Journal of Theoretical, Experimental and Interdisciplinary Research is a peer-reviewed linguistic journal in the field of syntax of natural languages, founded in 1998 and published by Blackwell Publishing. Its current editors are Prof. Suzanne Flynn (MIT) and Prof. ...
  • In logic, syntax is anything having to do with formal languages or formal systems without regard to any interpretation or meaning given to them. ...
  • In computer science, the syntax of a programming language is the set of rules that define the combinations of symbols that are considered to be correctly structured programs in that language. The syntax of a language defines its surface form. ...