syntactic

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He tested ChatGPT and, although the result “was perfectly written, from a syntactic, orthographic point of view,” it lacked poetry.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 12, 2024

There is a deep hunger that Sondheim satisfies, for intelligence and syntactic rigor in a form that in lesser hands comes across as pat and lazy.

From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2022

“I’m a linguist, so I think everyone’s an egghead like me and wants to look at syntactic constructions,” he says.

From The Verge • Jun. 7, 2022

The basic idea with the parallel construction, which of course is a syntactic cliche, had occurred to me long before.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2022

The syntactic confusion about which grammatical person belongs in which phrase reflects our intellectual confusion about the very meaning of the concept “person.”

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker