[...] syntax consists largely in defining them [taxemes of selection] - in stating, for instance, under what circumstances (with what accompanying forms or, if the accompanying forms are the same, with what difference of meaning) various form- classes (as, say, indicative and subjunctive verbs, or dative and accusative nouns, and so on) appear in syntactic constructions.
- Bloomfield (1935), a pag.190

[...] syntax includes the construction of phrases.
- Bloomfield (1935), a pag.207