syntacticocentric
English
Alternative forms
- syntactico-centric
Adjective
syntacticocentric (comparative more syntacticocentric, superlative most syntacticocentric)
- (linguistics) Focused on the syntactic component of grammar.
- 2000, Wataru Nakamura, “Formalizing Functionalism: A Schematization-Based Linking Theory”, in English Linguistics, volume 17, number 2, DOI:, page 539:
- 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.
- 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 verbal agreement, DPs, and information structure, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, →ISBN, page 296:
- 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.
- 2012, Jaume Mateu, “Structure of the Verb Phrase”, in José Ignacio Hualde; Antxon Olarrea; Erin O'Rourke, editors, The Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 334:
- The complexity of VP in syntacticocentric approaches typically arises from the syntacticization of the linguistically relevant semantic predicate decompositions.