Setningarleg
Setningarleg is an Icelandic adjective that literally translates as "syntactic" or "grammatical". It is used primarily in linguistic contexts to describe properties, forms, or behaviors of language that are concerned with sentence structure rather than with isolated words or lexicon. The word comes from the Icelandic noun setning, meaning "sentence", combined with the suffix -leg, which indicates a qualitative relationship.
In syntax studies, setningarleg phenomena include phenomena such as word order, agreement, subordination, coordination, and the
The term is used in Icelandic academic literature, textbooks, and language description to delineate analyses that