WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
syntac′tic construc′tion, [Gram.]
  1. Grammara construction that has no bound forms among its immediate constituents. Cf. morphologic construction. 
  2. Grammarany phrase or sentence.

'syntactic construction' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
clause - double modal - double negative - extrapose - morphologic construction - parallelism - parenthesis - phrase-structure rule

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