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He tries to bring a poetic touch to his lines by jumbling the syntax of the sentences.
My friends, being incredibly nerdy linguists, decided to make fun of the syntax.
My rationale was, if you can enunciate densely rhymed verse, and understand the syntax, you can speak the language.
No doubt such garbled syntax does great things for policymakers sitting on committees.
In my syntax seminar the other day we were discussing grammaticalisation in French negation.
Like a language, the military art has its own lexicon, grammar, and syntax.
The syntax itself is hard to follow in places, in which case Wolfe provides elucidatory notes.
Phillips's syntax does the same thing, deferring predication so that we will be drawn to the end of the poem.
By studying that language, by learning its grammar and syntax, one can unlock its subtle mysteries and gain a better understanding of the world.
The syntax of the poem is complex and its convolutedness is so extreme that it disrupts semantic expectations.
The syntax of the first half of the poem creates a double image for the speaker, the praiser.
On the contrary, syntax is indispensable for a pragmatic language and pragmatics is indispensable for a syntactic language.
Deskbound in the yellow room during the crepuscular hour, I'm typing scientific syntax, window flung open.
I also get the sense that some lawyers think baffling legal jargon and tortured syntax will impress their clients.
It is assumed that you already know the syntax of Ada and have a rudimentary understanding of the semantics.
The syntax tells us which diagrams are acceptable, that is, which are well-formed, and which manipulations are permissible in each system.
It was a Judaisation of Middle High German, and certainly the structure of Western Yiddish is German in its syntax basically.
At the most literal level, a juxtapositional diction and syntax are primary to her poetics.
It appears to be the case that no language has its word order or anything about its syntax determined by facts of pronunciation.
The difficulty and complexity of the play's plotting is matched by an unusual density and knottiness of syntax.
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In this case it is opposed to orthoepy, orthography, syntax, and the other parts of grammar.
The vocabulary is different but the syntax and phonemes are nearly identical.
In a way, this threefold sequence shows how syntax is enveloped in semantics, and both in the pragmatics that determines them.
He knew how I hated a talkative person, and yet he stampedes into the conversation with his amendments and addendums of syntax.
Grammarians may criticize the syntax of the President's message, and the style.
Otherwise spelling, hyphenation, interpunction and syntax of the original have been preserved.
From this mother dialect our English differs less in respect of etymology, than of syntax, idiom, and flexion.
The syntax and semantics of formal logic are presented but with almost no mention of the role deduction systems play in constructing proofs.
With regard to syntax, the Basque resembles all agglutinative languages.
How careful ingo was not to laugh at the absurdities of my syntax!
He tried, he struggled, but the syntax was too much for him.
Automatic real-time syntax checking, color coding of key words and parameter fields, and the appropriate indenting of statements are all features of the language editor.
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