noun
- the branch of semiotics dealing with the formal relations between signs or expressions in abstraction from their signification and their interpreters
Usage: linguistics; philosophy
Examples
- The study of syntactics focuses on how symbols relate to each other structurally.
- In syntactics, meaning is less important than the formal relationships between signs.
- Syntactics examines the rules governing symbol combinations without considering semantics.
- The philosopher distinguished between syntactics, semantics, and pragmatics in his theory.
- Computer programming languages can be analyzed through syntactics.
- Syntactics deals with the grammar and structure of symbolic systems.