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Syntax
For other uses, see Syntax (disambiguation).
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In linguistics, syntax is the study of the rules that govern the structure of sentences.
The term syntax can also be used to refer to these rules themselves, as in “the syntax of a language”. Modern research in syntax attempts to describe languages in terms of such rules, and, for many practitioners, to find general rules that apply to all languages.
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A syntactic parse of "Alfred spoke" under the dependency formalism