English

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

• syntactical

Related terms

• syntax

Translations

External links

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