Syntacticocentric

Quick meaning: Syntacticocentric is an adjective meaning (linguistics) Focused on the syntactic component of grammar.

Meaning

(linguistics) Focused on the syntactic component of grammar.

Example Sentences

The complexity of VP in syntacticocentric approaches typically arises from the syntacticization of the linguistically relevant semantic predicate decompositions.

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.

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 understood with reference to semantics and discourse-pragmatics.

Word Forms

• syntactico-centric

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include grammaticosyntactic, grammaticosemantic, lexicosyntactic, endocentric, context-sensitive, syntacticosemantic.

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