Syntax vs Undefined - What's the difference?
syntax | undefined |
A set of rules that govern how words are combined to form phrases and sentences.
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(computing, countable) The formal rules of formulating the statements of a computer language.
(linguistics) The study of the structure of phrases, sentences and language.
Lacking a definition or value.
(mathematics, computing) That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.
As a noun syntax
is syntax.As an adjective undefined is
lacking a definition or value.syntax
English
(wikipedia syntax)Noun
(syntaxes)- 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.
Usage notes
The joke plural syntices occasionally occurs in blogs (by false analogy with matrix etc.)Derived terms
* morphosyntax * syntactic * syntacticianSee also
* grammar * morphology ----undefined
English
Adjective
(wikipedia undefined) (-)- The result of division by zero is undefined .
