Meaning of syntacticocentric | Babel Free

Definitions

Focused on the syntactic component of grammar.

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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

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