syntax

See also: Syntax

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French syntaxe, from Late Latin syntaxis, from Ancient Greek σύνταξις (súntaxis), from σύν (sún, “together”) + τάξις (táxis, “arrangement”), from τάσσω (tássō, “I arrange”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈsɪn.tæks/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • 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.
    • 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.
  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

Derived terms
English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *teh₂g-‎ (2 c, 0 e)

Translations
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See also

See also

Czech

Noun

syntax f (related adjective syntaktický)

  1. (linguistics, computing) syntax
    Synonyms: syntaxe f, skladba

Declension
Declension of syntax (soft zero-ending feminine)
singular plural
nominative syntax syntaxe
genitive syntaxe syntaxí
dative syntaxi syntaxím
accusative syntax syntaxe
vocative syntaxi syntaxe
locative syntaxi syntaxích
instrumental syntaxí syntaxemi

Slovak

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈsin.taks/

Noun

syntax f (genitive singular syntaxe, nominative plural syntaxe, genitive plural syntaxí, declension pattern of dlaň)

  1. syntax (linguistics)

Declension
Declension of syntax
singular plural
nominative syntax syntaxe
genitive syntaxe syntaxí
dative syntaxi syntaxiam
accusative syntax syntaxe
locative syntaxi syntaxiach
instrumental syntaxou syntaxami

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, 2024

Swedish

Noun

syntax c

  1. a syntax, a (formal) grammar

Declension
Declension of syntax 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative syntax syntaxen syntaxer syntaxerna
Genitive syntax syntaxens syntaxers syntaxernas

References
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