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of or relating to or conforming to the rules of syntax

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Which means: all the configuration options that are syntactically similar, are also semantically similar.
There's going to be a child, what shall I feed it?' Unlike the syntactically transitive habeo-constructions, a syntactically intransitive predicative possessive construction with the verb ulti 'to be' is a much rarer case in Obdorsk.
Delabastita and Zwaan also discuss ambiguity in the context of an effect known as "garden path." (12) The garden path phenomenon is, in actual language use, fairly uncommon, but the concept serves to illustrate the ordinary work that goes on when processing syntactically the language that we hear or read, a mental activity of which we are normally not conscious, though it is always engaged for sentence comprehension in everyday communication.
The effect of recursively applying the list function on its constitutive units obviously undermines the clarity of the catalogue both syntactically and cognitively.
In such a case we can make use of the syntactic side of the argument/adjunct distinction and say that arguments can be syntactically omitted.
In other words, a quantifier modifies nouns or pronouns by syntactically determining its number.
They are syntactically derived, she argues, licensed by the same rules that license nouns used elsewhere in narrow syntax.
A syllepsis is the use of a single word in such a way that it is syntactically related to two or more words elsewhere in the sentence, but has a different meaning in relation to each of the other words and now for clear understanding the suitable example would be (You took my hand and breath away)
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." - Mark Twain Donald Rumsfeld was laughed at when he made the comment quoted above, but he was syntactically and semantically correct.
But again, he writes, "What makes a representation pictorial or diagrammatic is not how we perceive it, but how it relates to others, syntactically and semantically within a system of representation....
I thought about that short ride off and on all the next day: Both hands on the wheel, the slight turn of her head, the unfolding, semantically and syntactically elaborated conversation about making a living in Las Vegas.
Clauses (I) a and b are considered to be semantically and syntactically identical as they share the same meaning and structure (an embedded finite clause).
Subjects were given 280 experimental sentences, including some that were syntactically (grammatically) correct and others containing grammatical errors, such as "We drank Lisa's brandy by the fire in the lobby," or "We drank Lisa's by brandy the fire in the lobby."
Basically, the former are syntactically dominated by one of the lowest syntactic (grammatical) categories, namely, noun, adjective, verb; while the latter, on the contrary, cannot be described like that.