syntactical

About word arrangement

Syntactical means relating to syntax—the rules governing how words combine into phrases and sentences.

A syntactical error violates grammar rules; a syntactical analysis examines sentence structure.

The word is interchangeable with syntactic, though syntactic appears more often in technical writing: The syntactical complexity of the passage made it hard to parse.

grammar

phrase

Words forming partial meaning

subject · object · modifier · agreement · tense · aspect · mood · voice · case · gender

analysis

diagramming

Creating visual schematics

tagging · bracketing

structure

arrangement

Ordered configuration or agreement

ordering · sequence · parallelism · inversion · embedding · nesting · branching · construction · formation · pattern

linguistics

transformational

Causing radical change

minimalism · recursion · grammaticality · ambiguity · valency · constituents · parse

Opposites
linguistic level

syntacticalsemantic

Of meaning in language

lexical · phonological · morphological · phonetic · pragmatic

grammatical conformity

syntacticalungrammatical

Breaking syntax rules

Phrases
Family

syntactic, syntactically

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