Syntactical
(adjective)
Related to the set of rules that govern how words are combined into meaningful phrases and sentences.
Examples of Syntactical in the following topics:
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Symbols and Nature
- Written languages use visual symbols to represent the sounds of the spoken languages, but they still require syntactic rules that govern the production of meaning from sequences of words.
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Noise as a Barrier to Communication
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Defining Communication
- Syntactic (formal properties of signs and symbols such as letters or numbers)
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The Structure of Language
- Every language has a different set of syntactic rules, but all languages have some form of syntax.
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Harmonic Functions
- The syntactic properties of these functions will be covered elsewhere.
- Similarly, when composing, there are patterns that might take an S4, with the specific chord (IV or II6) determined by voice-leading rather than harmonic syntax, but where a D4 chord (V4/2) would be syntactically inappropriate, regardless of voice-leading.
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Varying Your Sentence Structure and Vocabulary
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Using Varied Sentence Lengths and Styles
- Sentences are defined as grammatical units consisting of one or more words, which bear minimal syntactic relation to each other.
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Akkadian Government, Culture, and Economy
- The influence of Sumerian on Akkadian (and vice versa) is evident from lexical borrowing on a massive scale, to syntactic, morphological, and phonological convergence.