syntax

See also: Syntax

English

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Etymology

Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#SYNTAXCategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *teh₂g- (order)#SYNTAX

Partly from Late LatinCategory:English terms borrowed from Late Latin#SYNTAXCategory:English terms derived from Late Latin#SYNTAX syntaxis and partly from its etymon, Ancient GreekCategory:English terms borrowed from Ancient Greek#SYNTAXCategory:English terms derived from Ancient Greek#SYNTAX σύνταξις (súntaxis), from σύν (sún, together) + τάξις (táxis, arrangement), from τάσσω (tássō, I arrange).[1] Doublet of syntaxisCategory:English doublets#SYNTAX.

Pronunciation

Noun

syntax (plural syntaxes or syntaces or (proscribed) syntices)Category:English lemmas#SYNTAXCategory:English nouns#SYNTAXCategory:English countable nouns#SYNTAXCategory:English nouns with irregular plurals#SYNTAXCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SYNTAXCategory:Pages with entries#SYNTAXCategory:Pages with 4 entries#SYNTAX

  1. 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.
      Category:English terms with quotations#SYNTAX
  2. (computingCategory:en:Computing#SYNTAX, countableCategory:English countable nouns#SYNTAX) The formal rules of formulating the statements of a computer language.
  3. (linguisticsCategory:en:Linguistics#SYNTAX) The study of the structure of phrases, sentences, and language.

Usage notes

The joke plural syntices occasionally occurs in blogs (by false analogy with matrix etc.); the rare plural syntaces may also be formed using that analogy. (In Latin, the plural of syntaxis is syntaxes.)

Synonyms

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Translations

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See also

References

  1. syntax, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Category:en:Grammar#SYNTAX

Czech

Noun

syntax f (relational adjective syntaktický)Category:Czech lemmas#SYNTAXCategory:Czech nouns#SYNTAXCategory:Czech terms spelled with X#SYNTAXCategory:Czech entries with incorrect language header#SYNTAXCategory:Czech feminine nouns#SYNTAXCategory:Pages with entries#SYNTAXCategory:Pages with 4 entries#SYNTAX

  1. (linguisticsCategory:cs:Linguistics#SYNTAX, computingCategory:cs:Computing#SYNTAX) syntax
    Synonyms: syntaxe f, skladba

Declension

Category:Czech soft zero-ending feminine nouns#SYNTAX

Slovak

Pronunciation

Noun

syntax fCategory:Slovak lemmas#SYNTAXCategory:Slovak nouns#SYNTAXCategory:Slovak terms spelled with X#SYNTAXCategory:Slovak entries with incorrect language header#SYNTAXCategory:Slovak feminine nouns#SYNTAXCategory:Pages with entries#SYNTAXCategory:Pages with 4 entries#SYNTAX

  1. (linguisticsCategory:sk:Linguistics#SYNTAX) syntax

Declension

Declension of syntax
(pattern dlaň)
singularplural
nominativesyntaxsyntaxe
genitivesyntaxesyntaxí
dativesyntaxisyntaxiam
accusativesyntaxsyntaxe
locativesyntaxisyntaxiach
instrumentalsyntaxousyntaxami
Category:Slovak terms with declension dlaň#syntax

Derived terms

Further reading

  • 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, 2003–2025

Swedish

Noun

syntax cCategory:Swedish lemmas#SYNTAXCategory:Swedish nouns#SYNTAXCategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#SYNTAXCategory:Swedish common-gender nouns#SYNTAXCategory:Pages with entries#SYNTAXCategory:Pages with 4 entries#SYNTAXCategory:Swedish common-gender nouns#SYNTAX

  1. a syntax, a (formal) grammar

Declension

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