syntax

Syllable breakdown

Dictionary meaning

the set of rules, principles, and processes that govern the structure of sentences in a given language, specifying how words combine into phrases, clauses, and sentences; syntactic analysis reveals the hierarchical organisation of sentence constituents and explains grammatical relationships such as subject, predicate, and object; syntax operates above the level of individual words and morphemes and is a central domain of generative grammar as developed by Noam Chomsky and his successors