Clauses can be classified according to a distinctive trait that is a prominent characteristic of their syntactic form.

The test sets out to examine the child's command of a range of syntactic forms in terms of both comprehension and production.

Macros allow Lisp programmers to create new syntactic forms in the language.

This strategy involves changing the syntactic form of the verb to achieve a different sequence of elements.

However, some languages such as Scheme support macro substitutions based on syntactic forms.

Because of Scheme's minimalism, many common procedures and syntactic forms are not defined by the standard.

Moreover, in response to phonetic attrition the spoken varieties developed compound words and new syntactic forms.

For example, the syntactic form can be overridden to change the semantics of function application.

In normal spoken language there are often clear pragmatic constraints on the choice of particular syntactic forms.

The second reason for Bock's claim about relations between syntactic form and lexical accessibility in production is an empirical one.