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Orthography vs Syntax - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between orthography and syntax

is that orthography is the study of correct spelling according to established usage while syntax is a set of rules that govern how words are combined to form phrases and sentences.

orthography

Noun

(orthographies)
  • The study of correct spelling according to established usage.
  • The aspect of language study concerned with letters and their sequences in words.
  • Spelling; the method of representing a language or the sounds of language by written symbols.
  • (architecture) Orthographic projection; especially its use to draw an elevation, vertical projection etc. of a building.
  • Derived terms

    * orthographer * orthographic * orthographical * orthographically * orthographist

    Synonyms

    * spelling

    syntax

    English

    (wikipedia syntax)

    Noun

    (syntaxes)
  • A set of rules that govern how words are combined to form phrases and sentences.
  • *
  •   The incorporation of a rule of V MOVEMENT into our description of English Syntax turns out to have fundamental theoretical implications for our overall Theory of Grammar: it means that we are no longer able to posit that the syntactic structure of a sentence can be described in terms of a single Phrase-marker representing its S-structure. For, the postulation of a rule of V-MOVEMENT means that we must recognise at least two different levels of structure in our Theory of Grammar — namely, a level of D-structure'' (formerly known as ‘Deep Structure?) which serves as input to the rule, and a separate level of ''S-structure which is formed by application of the rule.
  • (computing, countable) The formal rules of formulating the statements of a computer language.
  • (linguistics) The study of the structure of phrases, sentences and language.
  • Usage notes

    The joke plural syntices occasionally occurs in blogs (by false analogy with matrix etc.)

    Derived terms

    * morphosyntax * syntactic * syntactician

    See also

    * grammar * morphology ----