different between syntactic vs syntactically

English

Etymology

Directly borrowed from Ancient Greek ??????????? (suntaktikós), or from syntax +? -ic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?n?tækt?k/
• Rhymes: -ækt?k

Adjective

syntactic (comparative more syntactic, superlative most syntactic)

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.

2. Containing morphemes that are combined in the same order as they would be if they were separate words e.g. greenfinch

Synonyms

• (of, related to or connected with syntax): syntactical

Related terms

• syntax

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Further reading

• syntactic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• syntactic in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

syntactic +? -ally

Adverb

syntactically (comparative more syntactically, superlative most syntactically)

1. According to the rules of syntax.

   • Thus, there is a third kind of judgment, which we shall call characterization. The wa-phrase and ga-phrase serve syntactically to distinguish predicational judgment not only from nonpredicational description but also from characterizational judgment.

   The sentence was syntactically correct, but made no sense.

Related terms

• syntactic
• syntactical
• didactic
• grammatical

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