Adjective

(en adjective)

Pertaining to a symbol.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)

, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}

Referring to something with an implicit meaning.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of, related to or connected with syntax.

The sentence “I saw he” contains a syntactic mistake.

* 2001 , Martin Haspelmath, Language Typology and Language Universals: An International Handbook , page 674:

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.