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Syntactic vs Syntagmatic - What's the difference?

syntactic | syntagmatic |

As adjectives the difference between syntactic and syntagmatic

is that syntactic is of, related to or connected with syntax while syntagmatic is of or pertaining to a syntagma.

syntactic

English

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.

    Synonyms

    * syntactical

    Related terms

    * syntax

    External links

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    syntagmatic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to a syntagma

    • Synonyms

    * syntagmic