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metasyntactic

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Etymology

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From meta- +‎ syntactic.

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Adjective

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metasyntactic (not comparable)

  1. (linguistics, computing) Used in describing syntax; relating to metasyntax.
    • 2001, John N. Shutt, What is Grammar?‎[1]:
      Metasyntactic values, in the sense I'm using here, are descriptive of syntax, as for example the nonterminals of a Chomsky grammar.
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