the study of grammar and linguistic rules; the field of linguistics concerned with morphology and syntax

a rhetorical device where the intended meaning is the opposite of the literal words

A language unit that follows specific rules of structure; also known as a tagmeme in linguistics.

(computing) syntax within a programming language that is designed to make things easier to read or to express, even if it does not add new functionality

a unit of grammatical analysis used to describe the relationship between a grammatical role and the set of words that can fill it

A computer program or component that analyzes the grammatical structure of a sentence or string of code; a syntactic parser.