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autonomous syntax

noun Linguistics.

an approach of generative grammar in which the syntactic component of a grammar is viewed as existing or operating independently of the semantic component and abstract syntactic representation is not equivalent to semantic representation.

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Nearby words

autonomics, autonomism, autonomotropic, autonomous, autonomous phoneme, autonomous syntax, autonomously, autonomy, autonym, autooxidation, autopen
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