Syntagmatic relations, in contrast, are concerned with how units, once selected from their paradigmatic sets of oppositions, are'chained'together into structural wholes.
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One further common confusion here is that syntagmatic relations, assumed to occur in time, are anchored in speech and are considered either diachronic ( confusing syntagmatic with historical ) or are part of parole ( " everyday speech " : confusing syntagmatic with performance and behaviour and divorcing it from the linguistic system ), or both.