Syntactical

(adjective)

Related to the set of rules that govern how words are combined into meaningful phrases and sentences.

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Examples of Syntactical in the following topics:

  • Symbols and Nature

    • Written languages use visual symbols to represent the sounds of the spoken languages, but they still require syntactic rules that govern the production of meaning from sequences of words.

  • Noise as a Barrier to Communication

  • Defining Communication

    • Syntactic (formal properties of signs and symbols such as letters or numbers)

  • The Structure of Language

    • Every language has a different set of syntactic rules, but all languages have some form of syntax.

  • Harmonic Functions

    • The syntactic properties of these functions will be covered elsewhere.
    • Similarly, when composing, there are patterns that might take an S4, with the specific chord (IV or II6) determined by voice-leading rather than harmonic syntax, but where a D4 chord (V4/2) would be syntactically inappropriate, regardless of voice-leading.

  • Varying Your Sentence Structure and Vocabulary

  • Using Varied Sentence Lengths and Styles

    • Sentences are defined as grammatical units consisting of one or more words, which bear minimal syntactic relation to each other.

  • Akkadian Government, Culture, and Economy

    • The influence of Sumerian on Akkadian (and vice versa) is evident from lexical borrowing on a massive scale, to syntactic, morphological, and phonological convergence.