syntax

Partly from Late Latin syntaxis and partly from its etymon, Ancient Greek σύνταξις (súntaxis), from σύν (sún, “together”) + τάξις (táxis, “arrangement”), from τάσσω (tássō, “I arrange”).^[1] Doublet of syntaxis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪn.tæks/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Homophone: sin tax

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.

The joke plural syntices occasionally occurs in blogs (by false analogy with matrix etc.).

• (grammar): syntaxis

• grammar
• morphology
• word order

syntax f (related adjective syntaktický)

1. (linguistics, computing) syntax

   Synonyms: syntaxe f, skladba

• IPA^(key): /ˈsin.taks/

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

1. syntax (linguistics)

• syntaktický
• syntakticky

• “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, 2003–2024

syntax c

1. a syntax, a (formal) grammar

• syntax in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)