different between syntax vs syntactically

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)

1. 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.

2. (computing, countable) The formal rules of formulating the statements of a computer language.
3. (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

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See also

• grammar
• morphology

Czech

Noun

syntax f

1. (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?)

1. syntax (linguistics)

Declension

Derived terms

• syntaktický
• syntakticky

Further reading

• syntax in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Swedish

Noun

syntax c

1. a syntax, a (formal) grammar

Declension

References

• syntax in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

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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