syntactically

English edit

syntactically (comparative more syntactically, superlative most syntactically)

According to the rules of syntax.
- 1965 June 4, Shigeyuki Kuroda, “Generative grammatical studies in the Japanese language”, in DSpace@MIT‎^[1], retrieved 2014-02-24:
  Thus, there is a third kind of judgment, which we shall call characterization. The wa-phrase and ga-phrase serve syntactically to distinguish predicational judgment not only from nonpredicational description but also from characterizational judgment.
The sentence was syntactically correct, but made no sense.

according to the rules of syntax