The proposition expressed by a sentence can be identified with a meta-linguistic fact about that sentence, including the semantic values of its expressions and the syntactic relation encoding ascription
Syntactic relation(as used in linguistics and philosophy of language)
The grammatical structure and order of words in a sentence—how words are arranged and connected together following the rules of grammar.
proposition(Used in the context of a semantic theory sensitive to differences in subject matter.)
The content expressed by a sentence, individuated at least in part by the subject matter of the sentence and the contents of its subsentential expressions.
According to the first, propositions are a kind of fact. This view was, on some interpretations, advocated by Russell (1903) and Wittgenstein (1922). The most prominent current defender of this view is Jeffrey King. On his version of the view, propositions (at least the propositions expressed by sentences) are meta-linguistic facts about sentences. At a first pass, and ignoring some important subtleties, the proposition expressed by the sentence “Amelia talks” will be the fact that there is some