syntacticocentric

English

Alternative forms

• syntactico-centric

Adjective

syntacticocentric (comparative more syntacticocentric, superlative most syntacticocentric)

1. (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.