syntagmaticallyadv.
/ˌsɪntaɡˈmatᵻkli/, U.S. /ˌsɪnˌtæɡˈmædək(ə)li/ Chiefly Linguistics and Semiotics.
In a syntagmatic manner; according to principles of syntagmatic arrangement.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > [adverb]
syntactically1698
syntagmatically1937
lexotactically1972
1937 J. Orr tr. I. Iordan Introd. Romance Linguistics iv. 286 The constituent elements of human language, considered at a particular moment,..are related to each other syntagmatically and associatively [Rom. se leagă între ele prin raporturi sintagmatice şi asociative ‘are interrelated by syntagmatic and associative relationships’].
1951 Ess. & Stud. 4 126 Throughout his poetry Swinburne lays general constructions alongside each other, syntagmatically parallel collocations are a feature of verse-form and stanza-form.
1973 D. Matias & P. Willemen tr. M. Cegarra in Screen Spring 144 Because to Metz, the organisation of the cinema is ‘manifestly syntagmatic’..his criticism of the montage films is in fact no more than reproaching them for being syntagmatically bad.
2009 P. Sharpe Language 40 The morphemes {un-} {know} and {-ing} are syntagmatically related in a particular way in the word unknowing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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