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16 Modelling syntactic patterning (i): syntagmatic approaches


 
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1. Title Title of document 16 Modelling syntactic patterning (i): syntagmatic approaches - Meaningful Arrangement
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country Edward McDonald; University of Auckland.;
 
3. Subject Discipline(s) Linguistics
 
4. Subject Keyword(s) Linguistics; grammar; syntax; discourse analysis; patterning of words in sentences; syntactic analysis; Mandarin Chinese; Scottish Gaelic
 
5. Subject Subject classification Grammar and syntax; Discourse analysis
 
6. Description Abstract Now that syntax is established as an independent field of study, there are two major theoretical decisions to be made: firstly, how to theorise syntactic relations, including the relationship between syntactic categories and semantic ones; and secondly, how to model syntactic patterning.In Chapters 16 and 17, the author considers the second of these themes, how to model syntactic patterning. Here he picks up on one of Saussure’s key distinctions, that between the ‘horizontal’ syntagmatic aspect and the ‘vertical’ paradigmatic aspect of language (see Chapter 3), and show how it can be used to characterise the emphases and biases of different theories. While it is sometimes assumed that ‘syntax’ is necessarily ‘syntagmatic’ (both deriving from the same Greek root meaning ‘joint arrangement’) – something that is certainly true of mainstream approaches to the subject – there are signifi cant minority traditions which instead take the paradigmatic as their starting point. Here again, as in the case of ‘formalist’ and ‘functionalist’, there is no necessarily clean break between the two, with most paradigmatic approaches dealing also with the syntagmatic, and many basically syntagmatic approaches also incorporating aspects of the paradigmatic.
 
7. Publisher Organizing agency, location Equinox Publishing Ltd
 
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9. Date (YYYY-MM-DD) 01-Dec-2008
 
10. Type Status & genre Peer-reviewed Article
 
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13. Identifier Uniform Resource Identifier https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/29575
 
14. Identifier Digital Object Identifier 10.1558/equinox.29575
 
15. Source Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) Equinox eBooks Publishing; Meaningful Arrangement
 
16. Language English=en en
 
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