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For other uses, see Syntax (disambiguation).

“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.

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

Notes

↑ from Ancient Greek συν- syn-, “together”, and τάξις táxis, “arrangement”

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.