Morphology vs. Syntax
Morphologynoun
(uncountable) A scientific study of form and structure, usually without regard to function. Especially:
Morphologynoun
(linguistics) The study of the internal structure of morphemes (words and their semantic building blocks).
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(biology) The study of the form and structure of animals and plants.
Morphologynoun
(geology) The study of the structure of rocks and landforms.
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(math) Mathematical morphology.
Morphologynoun
(countable) The form and structure of something.
Morphologynoun
(countable) A description of the form and structure of something.
Morphologynoun
That branch of biology which deals with the structure of animals and plants, treating of the forms of organs and describing their varieties, homologies, and metamorphoses. See Tectology, and Promorphology.
Morphologynoun
The form and structure of an organism.
Morphologynoun
The branch of linguistics which studies the patterns by which words are formed from other words, including inflection, compounding, and derivation.
Morphologynoun
The study of the patterns of inflection of words or word classes in any given language; the study of the patterns in which morphemes combine to form words, and the rules for combination; morphemics; as, the morphology of Spanish verbs; also, the inflection patterns themselves.
Morphologynoun
the branch of biology that deals with the structure of animals and plants
Morphologynoun
studies of the rules for forming admissible words
Morphologynoun
the admissible arrangement of sounds in words
Morphologynoun
the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms
Morphologynoun
the study of the forms of things.
Morphologynoun
the branch of biology that deals with the form of living organisms, and with relationships between their structures.
Morphologynoun
the study of the forms of words, in particular inflected forms
Morphologynoun
a particular form, shape, or structure.
Syntaxnoun
A set of rules that govern how words are combined to form phrases and sentences.
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The formal rules of formulating the statements of a computer language.
Syntaxnoun
(linguistics) The study of the structure of phrases, sentences and language.
Syntaxnoun
Connected system or order; union of things; a number of things jointed together; organism.
Syntaxnoun
That part of grammar which treats of the construction of sentences; the due arrangement of words in sentences in their necessary relations, according to established usage in any language.
Syntaxnoun
the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Syntaxnoun
a systematic orderly arrangement
Syntaxnoun
studies of the rules for forming admissible sentences
Syntax
In linguistics, syntax () is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central concerns of syntax include word order, agreement, the nature of crosslinguistic variation, and the relationship between form and meaning.
