syntactic

From New Latin syntacticus, from Ancient Greek συντακτικός (suntaktikós).

• IPA^(key): /sɪnˈtæktɪk/

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• Rhymes: -æktɪk

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

• (of, related to or connected with syntax): syntactical

• syntax

• “syntactic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “syntactic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.