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From: Rob Stewart (stewart_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-27 17:11:23


From: "Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email)"
> David Abrahams wrote:
>
> > You bet it ain't proper, whatever syntagm means. What the heck's a
> > syntagm?

I wondered that, too.

> http://www.m-w.com says:
>
> syntagm is one of more than 1,000,000 entries available at
> Merriam-WebsterUnabridged.com. Click here to start your free trial!

Yeah, I punted and went to dictionary.com
(http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=syntagm):

   1. A sequence of linguistic units in a syntagmatic
   relationship to one another.

   2. A sequence of words in a particular syntactic relationship
   to one another; a construction.

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