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Syntactics is the branch of semiotics that deals with the formal properties of signs and symbols.

More precisely, syntactics deals with the " rules that govern how words are combined to form phrases and sentences.

" Charles Morris adds that semantics deals with the relation of signs to their designata and the objects which they may or do denote ; and, pragmatics deals with the biotic aspects of semiosis, that is, with all the psychological, biological, and sociological phenomena which occur in the functioning of signs.