syntax

The lack of precision, like the tangled syntax, seems deliberate.

“Fox” has the bones of a potboiler but is supported by the sinew of the author’s elegant structure and syntax.

Forced to return to his traditional means of work using his memory and what he had decades of experience doing, he struggled to remember some of the syntax he coded with.

Among birds, the Japanese tit offers the first experimental evidence for compositional syntax in any non-human species.

Reviewer David Kipen celebrated Wallace’s “stupendously high-toned vocabulary and gleeful low-comedy diction, coupled with a sense of syntax so elongated that he can seem to go for days without surfacing.”