Syntax "Syntax" is the theory of the construction of sentences out of words. In linguistics, syntax is distinguished from morphology, or the theory of the construction of words out of minimal units of significance, only some of which are...

Syntax is simply the rules that define the structure of a programming language. These rules specify how the words, symbols, and punctuations are used to form a statement. Each program, thus, has its own set of syntactical rules. The format used by a...

[Grk sýntaxis ‘putting together in order, arrangement’] 1 Subcategory of semiotics which deals with the ordering of and relationships between signs and is abstracted from the relationship of the speaker to the sign, the sign to its...

// n. The branch of grammar dealing with the organization of words into larger structures, particularly into sentences; equivalently, the study of sentence structure. Adj. syntactic, syntactical //. NOTE: the form syntactical is traditional, but...

In computer science, SYNTAX is a system used to generate lexical and syntactic analyzers (parsers) (both deterministic and non-deterministic) for all kind of context-free grammars (CFGs) as well as some classes of contextual grammars. It is developed at...

The Bush administration's relationship with the English language, I confess, just drives me up the wall. How can these people be so comically doofus with the language one minute and so brilliantly Orwellian the next? President Bush's misadventures with the dictionary are legendary,...

MORTAL SYNTAX The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, edited by Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1,860 pages. $150. Jim Lewis The coeditors of this enormous, deluxe, and inestimable volume have spent, between them, some...

Olevia, the television brand from upstart electronics firm Syntax-Brillian, is becoming a pain in the side of established brands such as Sony, Samsung and Sharp. Syntax-Brillian BRLC applies some of the same techniques to TV production that Dell DELL used to become a giant in...

A Wisconsin man whose blend of awkward syntax, imminent disaster and bathroom humor offends both good taste and the English language won an annual contest Monday that salutes bad writing.Jim Gleeson, 47, of Madison, Wis., beat out thousands of other prose manglers in San Jose...