Definition of "syntactic" []

• Of, relating to, or conforming to the rules of syntax. (adjective)

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• "Outside of poetic writing and certain syntactic alternations like topicalization, the word order of Modern English is Subject-Verb-Object."
• "But for me, it was a bit worrisome — especially as I had recently been enjoying a resurgence of interest in syntactic research."
• "Not the essential principle but a linguistic structure of arbitrary symbols in syntactic relationships, the structure of which maps to the morphological form of the essential principle."