The paper first analyzes the standardization of syntactical description of electronic record management metadata from the aspect of linguistics. It then points out the basic problems that exist in syntactical description of current electronic record management metadata. That is, there lacks of target name space of electronic record management metadata, lacks of completely mapping to the semantic elements of electronic record management metadata and modularization in architecture design. Aiming at these basic problems, it puts forward some solutions. Finally, it indicates the limitations of the standardization of syntactical description of electronic record management metadata and brings forward channels of resolution.