syntacticocentric

comparative more syntacticocentric · superlative most syntacticocentric · alternative syntactico-centric

1. human sciencesFocused on the syntactic component of grammar.

   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 Linguistics, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 334

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   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.

   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 verbal agreement, DPs, and information structure, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, →ISBN, page 296