syntactics
/sɪnˈtæktɪks/
noun
- The branch of semiotics that deals with the formal relationships between signs and symbols, especially in language or logic, without considering their meaning or context.
- The course on syntactics covered the formal structure of mathematical notation.
- Syntactics is one of the three main branches of semiotics, along with semantics and pragmatics.
- In syntactics, we study how symbols combine according to rules, not what they mean.