What is "syntaxis"

Syntaxis \Syn*tax"is\, n. Syntax. [R.]
--B. Jonson.

n. 1 (context obsolete grammar English) syntax. 2 (context geology English) A convergence of mountain ranges, or geological folds, towards a single point. 3 "The melting and assimilation of the country rock" [The Penguin Dictionary of Geology, D.G.A. Whitten and J.R.V. Brooks] 4 (context crystallography English) syntaxy.

Syntaxis (contrasted to parataxis) is style in writing or in rhetoric that favors complex syntax, as against simple sentence structures. For example, 19th-century German academic prose, and John Milton's " Paradise Lost" poetry in English are notably syntactic.

Category:Rhetoric Category:Syntax

Syntaxis may refer to:

• Syntaxis, a writing style that favour complex syntax
• Syntaxis Mathematica, an alternative name of Ptolemy's Almagest