X-bar theoretic

English

Alternative forms

  • X-bar-theoretic, X′ theoretic, X′-theoretic

Etymology

From X-bar theory +‎ -etic.

Adjective

X-bar theoretic (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to the X-bar theory.
    • 1997, Paul Law, “On Some Syntactic Properties of Word-structure and Modular Grammars”, in Anna-Maria Di Sciullo, editor, Projections and Interface Conditions: Essays on Modularity, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 34:
      In the structures in (7) and (14), the nominalizers -er and -ee are X-bar theoretic heads and the verb-bases are their X-bar theoretic complements.
    • 2013, Marcel den Dikken, “Introduction”, in Marcel den Dikken, editor, The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 13:
      Generalized X-bar theoretic representations have enjoyed broad though not universal acceptance throughout the generative enterprise.
    • 2014, Hiroki Narita, Endocentric Structuring of Projection-free Syntax, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page xi:
      Since I first entered into the field of theoretical syntax, I have been living my life with the textbook assumption that every exercise in this field is about drawing trees with labels and projection of the X-bar-theoretic sort.
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