syntactic

CEFRC1

/sɪnˈtæktɪk/

adjective

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adjective
Related to the arrangement of words in sentences.
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adjective
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Containing morphemes that are combined in the same order as they would be if they were separate words e.g. greenfinch

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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The sentence “I saw he” contains a syntactic mistake.
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.

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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.
2001, Martin Haspelmath, Language Typology and Language Universals: An International Handbook, page 674
Sometimes, a preposition like of just marks the function from a noun, as in the picture of the dog. Here, the function is picture, and of is a purely syntactic marker of the argument of picture, the dog. In this case, there is no semantics for the preposition of.
2025, Edward A. F. Gibson, “Dependency Grammar” (chapter 3), in Syntax: A Cognitive Approach, MIT Press, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 68–69

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