For most grammatical purposes a clause is a syntactic structure containing both a subject and a predicate. From LearnThat.org. [The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993]
The syntactic rules of a language. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
But for me, it was a bit worrisome — especially as I had recently been enjoying a resurgence of interest in syntactic research. From Wordnik.com. [The serial, Harvard, or Oxford comma « Motivated Grammar] Reference
Outside of poetic writing and certain syntactic alternations like topicalization, the word order of Modern English is Subject-Verb-Object. From Wordnik.com. [2009 October « Motivated Grammar] Reference
Jespersen also elaborated a theory of rank, de - signed to explicate the idea of syntactic rules. From Wordnik.com. [STUDY OF LANGUAGE] Reference
The Scheme community has come up with hygienic macro systems that let you write macros in Scheme, such as syntactic closures. From Wordnik.com. [Snell-Pym » Source Transformation for Fun and Profit] Reference
Because of its double role, the word forms a kind of syntactic glue between the otherwise diverse subjects, joining them together in a unity. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor, My Eyes] Reference
This is called syntactic analysis. From Wordnik.com. [DevX: Latest Published Articles] Reference
One approach is the idea of syntactic skins. From Wordnik.com. [Room 101] Reference
But such differences were orthoepic, and not syntactic. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859] Reference
This being the case, take any syntactic description D of Mentalese. From Wordnik.com. [The Computational Theory of Mind] Reference
Finally, pictorial systems fail on both syntactic and semantic grounds. From Wordnik.com. [Goodman's Aesthetics] Reference
To examine a program and analyze the syntactic structure. print statement. From Wordnik.com. [How To Think Like a Computer Scientist, Learning with Python]
This essentially syntactic account of truthlikeness has some nice features. From Wordnik.com. [Truthlikeness] Reference
This seems to require a discursive syntactic approach at the sentential level. From Wordnik.com. [The Language of Thought Hypothesis] Reference
The standard forms were syntactic and/or semantic forms of argument in English. From Wordnik.com. [Model Theory] Reference
Thinking thus consists in syntactic operations defined over such representations. From Wordnik.com. [The Language of Thought Hypothesis] Reference
But predicates and plural noun phrases belong to different syntactic and semantic categories. From Wordnik.com. [Plural Quantification] Reference
However, it should be noted that a shading is a new syntactic device which Euler did not use. From Wordnik.com. [Diagrams] Reference
Euler himself seemed to recognize this potential problem and introduced a new syntactic device. From Wordnik.com. [Diagrams] Reference
But this is just to say that sentences are not atomic, but have syntactic constituent structure. From Wordnik.com. [The Language of Thought Hypothesis] Reference
Abundant conceptions will impose only broadly syntactic restrictions on the expression of propositions. From Wordnik.com. [Propositions] Reference
Thus, the structure of a proposition is derived from the syntactic structure of a corresponding sentence. From Wordnik.com. [Propositions] Reference
Aristotle's main contribution to linguistics is his careful definition of some important syntactic terms. From Wordnik.com. [STUDY OF LANGUAGE] Reference
The rules of combinatorial syntax determine the syntactic or formal structure of complex mental representations. From Wordnik.com. [The Language of Thought Hypothesis] Reference
One of the basic elements of the syntactic structure of a program, analogous to a word in a natural language. parse. From Wordnik.com. [How To Think Like a Computer Scientist, Learning with Python]
I fail to see how each has its own character in that the sentences are exactly alike but for a few syntactic tricks. From Wordnik.com. [Free the Burmese] Reference
Here the judgment as a mental act is assumed to operate on a mental representation that itself has syntactic structure. From Wordnik.com. [Logic and Ontology] Reference
Stich proposes a syntactic theory of the mind, on which the semantic properties of mental states play no explanatory role. From Wordnik.com. [Mental Representation] Reference
I fail to see how each has its own character in that each of the sentences are exactly alike but for a few syntactic tricks. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: Will Google Falter?] Reference
Not the length in characters, of course, but the length in distinct syntactic elements -- basically, the size of the parse tree. From Wordnik.com. [The Hundred-Year Language] Reference
Searle argues that additional syntactic inputs will do nothing to allow the man to associate meanings with the Chinese characters. From Wordnik.com. [The Chinese Room Argument] Reference
For any representation system, whether it is sentential or diagrammatic, we can discuss two levels, a syntactic and a semantic level. From Wordnik.com. [Diagrams] Reference
Forman well observes that walkedst, the right word here, would naturally seem to Shelley more heinous than a breach of syntactic rule. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference
Under an abundant conception of properties, whether a predicate expresses a property depends only on its broadly syntactic facts about it. From Wordnik.com. [Propositions] Reference
“TERRORISTS”, and differs from the belief that terrorists dislike the president by virtue of something analogous to syntactic arrangement. From Wordnik.com. [Eliminative Materialism] Reference
The puzzling aspect of these sophisms is variously caused by semantic or syntactic ambiguities involved in certain logical or “syncategorematic” words such as. From Wordnik.com. [Richard the Sophister] Reference
Another advantage of this is that the thought processes can be causally guided by the syntactic forms of the sentences in a way that respect their semantic contents. From Wordnik.com. [The Language of Thought Hypothesis] Reference
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