syntactics: Meaning and Definition of

syn•tac•tics

Pronunciation: (sin-tak'tiks), [key]
— n. (used with a sing. v.) Ling.
  1. the branch of semiotics dealing with the formal properties of languages and systems of symbols. Also called
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