syntagmatic
- adjective
- /sɪnˈtæɡmətɪk/
- Specialized
- In linguistics, syntagmatic relations describe how words combine to form sentences.
- syntagmatic chain
- syntagmatic principle
- syntagmatic responses
Examples
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The syntagmatic choices of vocabulary impact the overall meaning of a text.
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When analyzing language, it's essential to consider both syntagmatic structures and paradigmatic variations.
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At the same time, syntagmatic associations stayed relatively stable over trials.
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An artist, in creating his work, makes paradigmatic choices and sends them along the syntagmatic line of presentation.
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In the first elicitation, children produced a comparable number of paradigmatic and syntagmatic responses.
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Through the action of offering, Haya invokes another syntagmatic chain in the transcendent domain.
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In other terms, Claudel implies that Eastern epistemology emphasizes instead the syntagmatic side of language and communication.
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The syntagmatic process, charged with feeling and loaded with associations, rhythmically activates responses in the writer and reader.
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In the following analysis, paradigmatic and syntagmatic principles are utilized to elucidate the logic of reciprocity.
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Banana beer that is utilized as a prestation may be viewed as symbolizing the syntagmatic chain of levels of altered consciousness described previously.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
Relating to the order of words and groups of words in a sentence
Relating to the rules that tell how words make sentences in a language
Antonyms
How Ordered
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Syntagmatic comes from Greek parts syn- meaning 'together' and tagma meaning 'an arranged group', and it shares the same idea as the word syntax, which is about how words are put together. So something syntagmatic is about the order and relationships of items in a list.