Syntactic vs Calque - What's the difference?
syntactic | calque |
Of, related to or connected with syntax.
* 2001 , Martin Haspelmath, Language Typology and Language Universals: An International Handbook , page 674:
A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language.
:: The word "watershed" is a calque of the German "Wasserscheide".
To adopt (a word or phrase) from one language to another by semantic translation of its parts.
As a adjective syntactic
is of, related to or connected with syntax.As a noun calque is
a word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language.As a verb calque is
to adopt (a word or phrase) from one language to another by semantic translation of its parts.syntactic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The sentence “I saw he” contains a syntactic mistake.
- the rules specifying how agglutinative morphemes are combined with each other are more syntactic than morphological by their nature and thus are closer to rules specifying how word-forms are combined with each other.