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nounthe grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
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nouna systematic orderly arrangement
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nounstudies of the rules for forming admissible sentencestype of:
Definition that contains syntax
- grammar the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics)
- grammarian a linguist who specializes in the study of grammar and syntax
- syntactically with respect to syntax
- syntactic of or relating to or conforming to the rules of syntax
- checking program a program that examines other computer programs for syntax errors
- descriptive linguistics a description (at a given point in time) of a language with respect to its phonology and morphology and syntax and semantics without value judgments
- generative grammar (linguistics) a type of grammar that describes syntax in terms of a set of logical rules that can generate all and only the infinite number of grammatical sentences in a language and assigns them all the correct structural description
- grammatical rule a linguistic rule for the syntax of grammatical utterances
- grammatical rule a linguistic rule for the syntax of grammatical utterances
- prescriptive linguistics an account of how a language should be used instead of how it is actually used; a prescription for the ``correct' phonology and morphology and syntax and semantics