Linguistics term referring to the study of sentence structure and the rules governing word combination.
Syntax is a branch of linguistics that studies sentence structure.
形態論 is morphology, the study of word formation, often contrasted with 統語論 within linguistics.
transformational generative syntax
Compound of 統語 (tōgo, 'word combination') + 論 (ron, 'theory'). The term is a modern linguistic coinage.