Definition of syntagmatic in English:
syntagmatic
adjective ˌsɪntaɡˈmatɪkˌsɪnˌtæɡˈmædɪk
Of or denoting the relationship between two or more linguistic units used sequentially to make well-formed structures.
Contrasted with paradigmatic
Example sentencesExamples
- In this and the next chapter I turn to ‘horizontal’ relations between units, that is to say, the syntagmatic combination of simpler units into larger, internally more complex units.
- A full understanding of elegy needs to move beyond a syntagmatic analysis and follow the genre in its evolution.
- Chinese poetic discourse favors syntagmatic relations between its constituent elements.
- The smallest possible unities - phonemic - are integrated into ever higher levels of unity - morphemic, syntactic, syntagmatic, narratological - that are simultaneously equivalent to ‘higher’ levels of thought.
- The semiology of the cinema will be the discipline that applies linguistic model, especially syntagmatic ones, to images as constituting one of their principle ‘codes’.
Derivatives
adverb
For instance, cut and knife are syntagmatically similar since they typically co-occur within the same context.
Example sentencesExamples
- The operative semantic is copulative, a linking (purely syntagmatically) of isolated units still preserving their molecular independency.
- Both stress accent and pitch accent are syntagmatically contrastive, while lexical tone is contrastive in a paradigmatic way.
plural noun
The syntagmatics of this advert represent the product as one of the leading brands in oral health care, using interesting methods to sell this product.
Example sentencesExamples
- Functional syntagmatics is not equivalent to the traditional Arabic grammar, nor to the science of rhetoric.
- His method of analysis is known as syntagmatics as opposed to Levi Strauss's paradigmatic.
- The introduction of the argumentative proposition marks an important step from the binarity of Roman Jakobson's spatial paradigmatics and temporal syntagmatics to processual ternarity by the addition of the causal argument.
- In this connection some principles of structural meaning constitution are identified: whereas the level of lexical meaning is described relating to the two-stage process of meaning constitution (based on syntagmatics and paradigmatics), text meaning constitution is described using the Gestalt theoretical concept of the dependence system.
Definition of syntagmatic in US English:
syntagmatic
adjectiveˌsɪnˌtæɡˈmædɪkˌsinˌtaɡˈmadik
Of or denoting the relationship between two or more linguistic units used sequentially to make well-formed structures.
Contrasted with paradigmatic
Example sentencesExamples
- A full understanding of elegy needs to move beyond a syntagmatic analysis and follow the genre in its evolution.
- Chinese poetic discourse favors syntagmatic relations between its constituent elements.
- The smallest possible unities - phonemic - are integrated into ever higher levels of unity - morphemic, syntactic, syntagmatic, narratological - that are simultaneously equivalent to ‘higher’ levels of thought.
- The semiology of the cinema will be the discipline that applies linguistic model, especially syntagmatic ones, to images as constituting one of their principle ‘codes’.
- In this and the next chapter I turn to ‘horizontal’ relations between units, that is to say, the syntagmatic combination of simpler units into larger, internally more complex units.