The Collaborative International Dictionary
Syntactic \Syn*tac"tic\, Syntactical \Syn*tac"tic*al\, a. [Cf. G. ? putting together. See Syntax.] Of or pertaining to syntax; according to the rules of syntax, or construction. -- Syn*tac"tic*al*ly, adv.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s; from Latin stem of syntax + -ical. Related: Syntactically.
Wiktionary
a. syntactic, related to syntax
WordNet
adj. of or relating to or conforming to the rules of syntax; "the syntactic rules of a language" [syn: syntactic]
Usage examples of "syntactical".
While most syntactical markers are represeted by whole words, the exceptions are covered by adding prepositions to the nouns in in question.
What the two of them do to one another may be no more than a complex-carbohydrate tease, cybernetic systems feeding back into each other, an infinite Do-loop, a sentence grammatical but out of syntactical control, whom looping around to subject subject who.
When the dimension of the purely grammatical was opened up, the proposition was to become no more than a syntactical unit.
Even the convoluted sentences made syntactical sense when translated into German.
The interpreter was supposed to enhance her ability to separate out phonemes and recognize syntactical patterns, not just store Middle English vocabulary, but she might as well be listening to Serbo-Croatian.
So, except for brief consultations now and then between the colony's co-leaders, Todd was free to spend long hours with Ken and Hrriss as they parsed and rehearsed Gringg sounds, and memorized what vocabulary had been exchanged and figured out the probable syntactical forms.