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X-bar-theoretic

X-bar-theoretic is the alternative form of X-bar theoretic.

Meaning of X-bar theoretic

Adjective

X-bar theoretic (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to the X-bar theory.
    • In the structures in (7) and (14), the nominalizers -er and -ee are X-bar theoretic heads and the verb-bases are their X-bar theoretic complements.1997, Paul Law, “On Some Syntactic Properties of Word-structure and Modular Grammars”, in Anna-Maria Di Sciullo, editor, Projections and Interface Conditions: Essays on Modularity, Oxford: Oxford...

Questions about X-bar-theoretic

What is X-bar-theoretic the alternative form of?
X-bar-theoretic is the alternative form of X-bar theoretic.

Words near X-bar-theoretic in the dictionary

  1. x-band
  2. x-bands
  3. X-bar
  4. X-bar theoretic
  5. X-bar theory
  6. X-bar-theoretic
  7. X-box
  8. X-by-wire
  9. X-C
  10. x-caboquinho
  11. x-caboquinhos

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