metasyntactic

English

Etymology

meta- +‎ syntactic

Adjective

metasyntactic (not comparable)

  1. (linguistics, computing) Used in describing syntax; relating to metasyntax.
    • 2001, John N. Shutt in What is Grammar?
      Metasyntactic values, in the sense I'm using here, are descriptive of syntax, as for example the nonterminals of a Chomsky grammar.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.