English

Adverb

syntactically ‎(comparative more syntactically, superlative most syntactically)

1. according to the rules of syntax
   • 1965 June 4, Shigeyuki Kuroda, “Generative grammatical studies in the Japanese language”, in DSpace@MIT, retrieved 2014-02-24:

     Thus, there is a third kind of judgment, which we shall call characterization. The wa-phrase and ga-phrase serve syntactically to distinguish predicational judgment not only from nonpredicational description but also from characterizational judgment.

   The sentence was syntactically correct, but made no sense.

Related terms

• syntactic
• syntactical
• didactic
• grammatical

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