different between syntax vs metasyntactic
syntax
English
Etymology
From French syntaxe, from Late Latin syntaxis, from Ancient Greek ???????? (súntaxis), from ??? (sún, “together”) + ????? (táxis, “arrangement”), from ????? (táss?, “I arrange”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?n.tæks/
- Homophone: sin tax
Noun
syntax (countable and uncountable, plural syntaxes)
- A set of rules that govern how words are combined to form phrases and sentences.
- 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 Structure?) 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
The joke plural syntices occasionally occurs in blogs (by false analogy with matrix etc.).
Synonyms
- (grammar): syntaxis
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- grammar
- morphology
Czech
Noun
syntax f
- (linguistics, computing) syntax
Synonyms
- syntaxe f
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sin.taks/
Noun
syntax f (genitive singular syntaxe, nominative plural syntaxe, genitive plural syntaxí, declension pattern of dla?)
- syntax (linguistics)
Declension
Derived terms
- syntaktický
- syntakticky
Further reading
- syntax in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk
Swedish
Noun
syntax c
- a syntax, a (formal) grammar
Declension
References
- syntax in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
syntax From the web:
- what syntax means
- what syntax does yoda use
- what syntax does tableau use
- what syntax rules do
- what syntax in computer
- what is an example of a syntax
metasyntactic
English
Etymology
meta- +? syntactic
Adjective
metasyntactic (not comparable)
- (linguistics, computing) Used in describing syntax; relating to metasyntax.
- 2001, John N. Shutt in What is Grammar?
- Metasyntactic values, in the sense I'm using here, are descriptive of syntax, as for example the nonterminals of a Chomsky grammar.
- 2001, John N. Shutt in What is Grammar?
Related terms
- metasyntactic variable
metasyntactic From the web:
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