syntactically

English

Etymology

From syntactic +‎ -ally.

Adverb

syntactically (comparative more syntactically, superlative most syntactically)

1. According to the rules of syntax.

   The sentence was syntactically correct, but made no sense.

   • 1965 June 4, Shigeyuki Kuroda, “Generative grammatical studies in the Japanese language”, in DSpace@MIT‎^[1], retrieved 2014-02-24:

     Thus, there is a third kind of judgment, which we shall call characterization. The wa-phrase and ga-phrase serve syntactically to distinguish predicational judgment not only from nonpredicational description but also from characterizational judgment.

Related terms

• syntactic
• syntactical
• didactic
• grammatical

Translations

according to the rules of syntax

• Catalan: sintàcticament (ca)
• Finnish: syntaktisesti, lauseopillisesti
• French: syntaxiquement (fr)
• Polish: składniowo
• Russian: синтакси́чески (ru) (sintaksíčeski)
• Spanish: sintácticamente