Syntax

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“Syntactic” redirects here. For another meaning of the adjective, see Syntaxis

In linguistics, syntax^[1] is the study of the rules that govern the structure of sentences.

The term syntax can also be used to refer to these rules themselves, as in “the syntax of a language”. Modern research in syntax attempts to describe languages in terms of such rules, and, for many practitioners, to find general rules that apply to all languages.

Contents 1 See also 1.1 Syntactic terms 2 Notes 3 References 4 Other websites

[change] See also

• Phrase
• Grammar

[change] Syntactic terms

Adjective Adverb Article Clause Comparative

Infinitive Noun Phrase Phrasal verb Plural

Preposition Pronoun Superlative Verb Tense Word order

[change] Notes

[change] References

• Brown, Keith; Jim Miller (eds.) (1996). Concise Encyclopedia of Syntactic Theories. New York: Elsevier Science. ISBN 0-08-042711-1. 
• Freidin, Robert; Howard Lasnik (eds.) (2006). Syntax, Critical Concepts in Linguistics. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-24672-5. 
• Graffi, Giorgio (2001). 200 Years of Syntax. A Critical Survey, Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 98. Amsterdam: Benjamins. ISBN 90-272-4587-8. 

[change] Other websites

• The syntax of natural language (Beatrice Santorini & Anthony Kroch, University of Pennsylvania)
• Learn Programming Language Syntax
• Various syntactic constructs used in computer programming languages