Year | definition | source | 1753 | "The right joining of Words in a Sentence, or Sentences together" | Fisher, Ann (1753, p.112) |
1917 | "That branch of ergonics which is concerned with the
analysis of a sentence into subject, predicate, and object,
or the building up of a sentence from these three components." | Palmer, Harold E. (1917, p.318) |
2007 | "The part of grammar which concerns the way words are combined into sentences." [n.b. goes on to define morphology and to state that as English morphology is "relatively simple" most English grammar is concerned just with syntax.] |
| Leech, Geoffrey (2007, p.110) |