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All syntax synonyms

syn·tax
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noun syntax

  • idiolect — The speech habits peculiar to a particular person.
  • morphology — the branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of organisms.
  • idiom — an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language, as the table round for the round table, and that is not a constituent of a larger expression of like characteristics.
  • linguistics — the science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and historical linguistics.
  • grammar — the study of the way the sentences of a language are constructed; morphology and syntax.
  • accidence — inflectional morphology; the part of grammar concerned with changes in the form of words by internal modification or by affixation, for the expression of tense, person, case, number, etc
  • accidences — the rudiments or essentials of a subject.
  • dialectology — the study of dialects and dialectal variations
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