Syntactic vs Grammatical - What's the difference?
syntactic | grammatical |
Of, related to or connected with syntax.
* 2001 , Martin Haspelmath, Language Typology and Language Universals: An International Handbook , page 674:
(linguistics) Acceptable as a correct sentence or clause as determined by the rules and conventions of the grammar, or morpho-syntax of the language.
Of or pertaining to grammar.
As adjectives the difference between syntactic and grammatical
is that syntactic is of, related to or connected with syntax while grammatical is (linguistics) acceptable as a correct sentence or clause as determined by the rules and conventions of the grammar, or morpho-syntax of the language.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.
Synonyms
* syntacticalExternal links
* *grammatical
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Your writing is not grammatical enough for publication.
- My friend used a grammatical textbook to support her argument.