The grammar of a language; the rules governing the structure and content of statements. See also logic, programming language, syntax error. Compare semantics (definition 1).
ETYM Latin syntaxis, Greek, to put together in order; syn with + tassein to put in order; cf. French syntaxe. Related to Syn-, and Tactics.
1. A systematic orderly arrangement.
2. Studies of the rules for forming admissible sentences.
3. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences; SYN. sentence structure, phrase structure.
The rules governing the structure of a language.
Sentence-construction; systematic arrangement.
The structure of language; the ways in which words are ordered and combined to convey meaning. Syntax applies principally to grammar, and a grammatically correct sentence is also syntactically correct, but syntax has a wider significance. + prikaži više