syntagmatic

-- 1997b: "The Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Structure of the Lexical Field of Feeling." Cuadernos de Investigacion Filologica 23-24: 35-60.

The syntagmatic structure, moving from phrase to phrase like a camera panning over a crowd, picks out figures in colorful costumes and presents a vivid cross-section of island cultural life.

Her conclusion: "The syntagmatic structure of the opening credits might be described as a theme and variations, where Cosby is the theme and each child - and his wife - appear as variations." (And you thought the show was dull.)

Syntagmatic structure is exploited in a verbless sentence with seven short phrases separated by colons, indicating contiguity and variety, and a four-part coda flexed with commas.

In determining the positional patterns for the different morphological operations, I give preference to paradigmatic over syntagmatic structures in the sense that there needs to be positive evidence for a syntagmatic position, and in the absence of such positive evidence, markers may be assumed to share the same positional pattern.