Dictionary

X-bar theoretic en · ADJ

Etymology

From X-bar theory + -etic.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Pertaining to the X-bar theory.
   • Generalized X-bar theoretic representations have enjoyed broad though not universal acceptance throughout the generative enterprise. 2013, Marcel den Dikken, “Introduction”, in Marcel den Dikken, editor, The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 13:
   • 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. 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:
   • 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. 2014, Hiroki Narita, Endocentric Structuring of Projection-free Syntax, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page xi:

Forms