SYNTAGMA

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: syntagmata

Meaning:

A syntactic string of words that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit

Synonyms:

syntagm; syntagma

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("syntagma" is a kind of...):

linguistic string; string of words; word string (a linear sequence of words as spoken or written)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "syntagma"):

constituent; grammatical constituent ((grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction)

Derivation:

syntagmatic (related as members of a syntagma)