syntax
Rules governing sentences
Syntax is the arrangement of words into phrases and sentences.
In language, syntax governs word order and grammatical structure—why the dog bit the man means something different from the man bit the dog.
In computing, syntax refers to the rules for writing valid code; a syntax error means the program can't parse what you wrote.
The word extends to any system with structural rules: the syntax of a musical composition.
Ordered configuration or agreement
- orderMethodical arrangement or request
- organizationStructured group with purpose
- formationCreation or arrangement
- constructionProcess of building something
pattern · framework · hierarchy · sequence · configuration · composition · form · layout
- transformationalCausing radical change
- generativeAble to produce or create
- constituentMember of electoral district
- dependencyState of needing support
recursion · ambiguity · grammaticality · universal grammar · minimalism · government · binding · merge
Complete thought, grammatically
- clauseProvision in agreement
- phraseWords forming partial meaning
- subjectMatter under discussion
- predicateSentence's non-subject portion
object · verb · noun · adjective · adverb · conjunction · preposition · agreement
Symbolic communication system
- compilerSource-to-machine-code translator
- parserSyntax-interpreting program
- linterSource code inspection tool
- interpreterOne who conveys meaning between languages
declaration · statement · expression · operator · variable · function · parameter · loop
Elevated, rule-governed expression
- propositionalOf logical statements
- predicateSentence's non-subject portion
- notationSystem of written symbols
- formulaFixed method or notation
symbol · expression · well-formed · metalanguage · symbolic · calculus
arrangement
Ordered configuration or agreement
- orderMethodical arrangement or request
- organizationStructured group with purpose
- formationCreation or arrangement
construction · pattern · framework · hierarchy · sequence · configuration · composition · form · layout · rules
Chomsky
- transformationalCausing radical change
- generativeAble to produce or create
- constituentMember of electoral district
dependency · recursion · ambiguity · grammaticality · universal grammar · minimalism · government · binding · merge
sentence
Complete thought, grammatically
predicate · object · verb · noun · adjective · adverb · conjunction · preposition · agreement · tense
code
Symbolic communication system
- compilerSource-to-machine-code translator
- parserSyntax-interpreting program
- linterSource code inspection tool
interpreter · declaration · statement · expression · operator · variable · function · parameter · loop · conditional
formal language
Elevated, rule-governed expression
- propositionalOf logical statements
- predicateSentence's non-subject portion
- notationSystem of written symbols
formula · symbol · expression · well-formed · metalanguage · symbolic · calculus
- languagelanguage, word, words, grammar, spelling
- Language & Wordstranslation, etymology, grammar, vocabulary, phonetics
- English skillsgrammar, vocabulary, reading, writing, speaking
- language learningvocabulary lists, lessons, acquisition, basic vocabulary, grammar books
- language termsgrammar, word, vocabulary, synonym, antonym
- literature and languagepoetry, prose, fiction, grammar, semantics
syntaxsemantics
Study of linguistic meaning
meaning · lexicon · vocabulary · lexis · content
syntaxword salad
Meaningless verbal confusion
gibberish · incoherence · disorder · randomness · chaos
- syntax errorsInvalid code structure
- abstract syntax treeHierarchical code representation
- syntactic alignmentHow languages mark roles uniformly
- syntactic dependencyLink between words in structure
- syntax rulesStructural language constraints
syntactic, syntactical, syntaxes, syntactically, syntax error, syntax errors