#syntactical

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syntactical

consisting of or noting morphemes that are combined in the same order as they would be if they were separate words in a corresponding construction: The word blackberry, which consists of an adjective followed by a noun, is a syntactic compound. Also, syntactical. Origin of syntactic Expand. Greek.

[besmirchthis]

The bed is made of sentences which present themselves as what they are Some soft, some hardly logical, some broken off Sentences granting freedom to memories and sights

Lyn Hejinian, The Book of a Thousand Eyes

[gegensmith]

Syntax does not become evident only after a (theoretically limitless) series of events has been recorded and examined, because it is itself the body of rules governing their production.

Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Raw and the Cooked (1964, 7)