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What does syntactic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of, related to or connected with syntax.
  2. Containing morphemes that are combined in the same order as they would be if they were separate words e.g. greenfinch
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Female speech is also more likely to be precise in its articulation and is less likely to include syntactic violations.
At the time he was busy mimeographing handouts about ordering constraints among syntactic transformations.
In terms of lexical category ambiguity, languages do differ in the extent to which their word-forms are specialized for syntactic function.
This is a normal example of syntactic and semantic change in progress, and I'm certainly not about to say that these sentences are ungrammatical.
In this paper I focus on scope phenomena connected with semi-modal verbs and mainly on the syntactic behaviour of these groups of verbs.
In addition, the ironic echo also displays a syntactic shift by changing the first clause to a negative and the second to an affirmative.

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