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From: Victor A. Wagner Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-27 22:57:56
At Wednesday 2005-04-27 14:14, Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email)
wrote:
>David Abrahams wrote:
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>>You bet it ain't proper, whatever syntagm means. What the heck's a
>>syntagm?
>
>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!
and just a little more research
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=syntagm says:
2 entries found for syntagm.
syn·tag·ma P Pronunciation Key (sn-tgm) also syn·tagm (sntm)
n. pl. syn·tag·mas or syn·tag·ma·ta (-tgm-t) also syn·tagms
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.
[New Latin, from French syntagme, from Greek suntagma, suntagmat-,
arrangement, syntactic unit, from suntassein, suntag-, to put in order. See
syntax.]
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