syntaktický

Syntaktický is an adjective in Czech meaning “syntactic” or “pertaining to syntax.” In linguistics, syntax is the study of the structure of sentences, including word order, phrase structure, and the relationships among sentence constituents. The term syntaktický is used to describe features that arise from rules of sentence construction rather than from meaning alone.

Etymology: The word is formed from the root syntakt- (from syntaktika, meaning syntax) plus the adjectival suffix -ický. The root goes back to Greek syntaxis, from syn- “together” and taxis “order” or arrangement, reflecting the idea of arranging elements in a sentence.

Usage: In linguistic description and grammar teaching, syntaktický describes how words combine into phrases and clauses and how different elements depend on each other. Common Czech phrases include syntaktické vazby (syntactic relations), syntaktická analýza (syntactic analysis), and syntaktická struktura (syntactic structure). The term is often contrasted with morfologický (morphological) and sémantický (semantic), highlighting distinctions between form and meaning in language analysis.

Computing and applied linguistics: In natural language processing and computational linguistics, syntaktický parsing aims to produce syntaktické stromy (syntax trees) that reflect grammatical structure, enabling downstream tasks such as semantic interpretation, machine translation, and information extraction. While focused on structure, syntaktický analysis often interacts with semantic considerations to yield a complete linguistic interpretation.

See also: syntax, syntaktika, sémantika, morfologie, parsing.