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syntactical

syntactical

1 7.6
Relating to the rules that tell how words make sentences in a language
  • adjective
  • /sɪnˈtæktɪkəl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : sintáctico
  • Written feedback from the teachers also focused on mistakes in the students' writing, particularly syntactical elements.
  • syntactical structure
  • syntactical complexity
  • syntactical errors

It will not have any new syntactical features, no new modules in the standard library, no new built in functions.

Examples

  • Natural language processing techniques allow the extraction of lexical, syntactical, and semantic information contained in the text.

    Academic text (2017)
  • The SPELT-P2 assesses a child's use of morphological and syntactical structures and pronouns.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Positive examples for the structure of the English language as well as for syntactical models.

    Academic text (2004)
  • And this is but a random list that says little about deep syntactical changes.

    Academic text (1997)
  • It was on syntactical problems in late Egyptian stories and love poems.

  • Some are concerned primarily with improving the precision of the rules that govern the syntactical structure of their thought.

    Academic text (1998)
  • We are far from having standardized its grammatical and syntactical rules.

    Academic text (1997)
  • Many of Dickinson's poems have a syntactical complexity caused partially by the poet's apparent preference for rhythm over meaning.

    Academic text (2006)
  • It is a kind of grammatical and syntactical anomaly which is extremely difficult even for linguists to analyze and to explain.

  • The teacher highlighted several syntactical errors in the students' essays that needed correcting.

Synonyms

syntactic
vssyntactical
  • Specialized
3 7.0

Relating to the order of words and groups of words in a sentence

focuses on following language rules rather than just arranging words
grammatic
vssyntactical
  • Archaic
7.6

About grammar and the rules of a language

focuses only on rules about correct sentence order and arrangement
constructional
vssyntactical
  • Specialized
7.5

About sentence patterns and how words are put together

focuses on following sentence rules rather than general language patterns
syntagmatic
vssyntactical
  • Specialized
9.9

How words or parts of a sentence join together

focuses on rule conformity for correct sentence formation rather than sequence relations

Surface Forms

syntactical positive

Morphology

syntactical = syntactic (transparent) = syntax + ic + al

Formed from the recognizable adjective 'syntactic' with the productive suffix '-al', so the meaning 'relating to syntax' is directly derivable.

Etymology

The word syntactical comes from Greek parts syn- meaning 'together' and taxis meaning 'arrangement', an idea you can also see in the word tactic. So syntactical is about how words are put together and ordered in a sentence, which is why it means following the rules of sentence structure.