WHAT IS SYNTAX? WHAT IS SEMANTICS? o In linguistics, syntax(from Ancient Greek ouvtasis"arrangement!" from ouv syn together", and tasis taxis, "an ordering")is"the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particularlanguages o Semantics(from Greek: semantika, neuter plural of semantikos) 2 is the study of meaning It focuses on the relation between signifiers, such aswords, phrases, signs and symbols, and what they stand for, their dentataWHAT IS SYNTAX? WHAT IS SEMANTICS? In linguistics, syntax (from Ancient Greek σύνταξις "arrangement" from σύν syn, "together", and τάξις táxis, "an ordering") is "the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particularlanguages.“ Semantics (from Greek: sēmantiká, neuter plural of sēmantikós) [1][2] is the study of meaning. It focuses on the relation between signifiers, such aswords, phrases, signs and symbols, and what they stand for, their denotata