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Answer for the clue "A syntactic string that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit ", 8 letters:
syntagma

Word definitions for syntagma in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a syntactic string of words that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit [syn: syntagm ] [also: syntagmata (pl)]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In linguistics , a syntagma is an elementary constituent segment within a text. Such a segment can be a phoneme , a word , a grammatical phrase , a sentence , or an event within a larger narrative structure, depending on the level of analysis. Syntagmatic ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A syntactic string of words that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit; a construction. 2 A sequence of linguistic units in a syntagmatic relationship to one another. 3 A Macedonian phalanx fighting formation consisting of 256 men with long spears ...

Usage examples of syntagma.

The drive into Athens did not take long, just half an hour, but by the time she arrived at the Grande Bretagne hotel in Syntagma Square Nicky felt exhausted.

Wait me till I come, or I will have you given to a syntagma of Africans.

The old Catholic works written against heretics by Rhodon, Melito, Miltiades, Proculus, Modestus, Musanus, Theophilus, Philip of Gortyna, Hippolytus, and others have all been just as little preserved to us as the oldest book of this kind, the Syntagma of Justin against heresies, and the Memorabilia of Hegesippus.

Skua spoke out against her openly, with the public backing of the Syntagma and the Temple guard.

We came over the pass at Daphne at about eight-thirty, with the last light over the pink and amber city, the first neon signs round Syntagma and Omonia like distant jewels.

And I wish could subjoin a translation of Gosindi's Syntagma of the doctrines of Epicurus, which, notwithstanding the calumnies of the Stoics and caricatures of Cicero, is the most rational system remaining of the philosophy of the ancients, as frugal of vicious indulgence, and fruitful of virtue as the hyperbolical extravagances of his rival sects.

I have sometimes thought of translating Epictetus (for he has never been tolerable translated into English) by adding the genuine doctrines of Epicurus from the Syntagma of Gassendi, and an abstract from the Evangelists of whatever has the stamp of the eloquence and fine imagination of Jesus.

Syntagma Antiquitatum Romanam Jurisprudentiam illustrantium, 2 vols. in 8 vo.