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syntacticocentric

syntacticocentric adjective: focused on the syntactic component of grammar.

Adjective

syntacticocentric (comparative more syntacticocentric, superlative most syntacticocentric)

  1. Focused on the syntactic component of grammar.
    • RRG comes in between formalist theories which hold the syntacticocentric view of grammar and extreme functionalist theories (e.g. Hopper (1987)) which attempt to reduce grammar into discourse; RRG is a monostratal theory which views syntax as an independent level of representation that may be fully...2000, Wataru Nakamura, “Formalizing Functionalism: A Schematization-Based Linking Theory”, in English Linguistics, volume 17, number 2, →DOI, page 539
    • The less syntacticocentric view would claim that syntax generates shifted and non-shifted DP objects, and at PF, shifted light DPs are ruled out, because of prosodic constraints.2008, João Costa, Nancy C. Kula, “Focus at the interface: Evidence from Romance and Bantu”, in Cécile De Cat, Katherine Demuth, editors, The Bantu-Romance Connection: A comparative investigation of...

Examples of syntacticocentric in a sentence

  • RRG comes in between formalist theories which hold the syntacticocentric view of grammar and extreme functionalist theories (e.g.2000, Wataru Nakamura, “Formalizing Functionalism: A Schematization-Based Linking Theory”, in English Linguistics, volume 17, number 2...
  • The complexity of VP in syntacticocentric approaches typically arises from the syntacticization of the linguistically relevant semantic predicate decompositions.2012, Jaume Mateu, “Structure of the Verb Phrase”, in José Ignacio Hualde, Antxon Olarrea, Erin O'Rourke, editors, The Handbook of Hispanic...

Forms of syntacticocentric

comparativemore syntacticocentric
superlativemost syntacticocentric
alternative formsyntactico-centric

Questions about syntacticocentric

What does syntacticocentric mean?
Syntacticocentric means focused on the syntactic component of grammar.
How do you use syntacticocentric in a sentence?
RRG comes in between formalist theories which hold the syntacticocentric view of grammar and extreme functionalist theories (e.g.
What part of speech is syntacticocentric?
Syntacticocentric is an adjective.

Words near syntacticocentric in the dictionary

  1. syntacticizations
  2. syntacticize
  3. syntacticized
  4. syntacticizes
  5. syntacticizing
  6. syntacticocentric
  7. syntacticosemantic
  8. syntactics
  9. syntactocentric
  10. syntactocentrism
  11. syntagm

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