Strukturalistickou

Strukturalistickou is the instrumental feminine singular form of the Czech adjective strukturalistický, meaning structuralist. It is used to describe feminine nouns in the instrumental case, indicating means, method, or association with structuralism.

In Czech grammar, adjectives agree with the nouns they modify in gender, number and case. For feminine singular nouns in the instrumental case, many adjectives ending in -ický take the ending -ou, producing forms such as strukturalistickou. Examples of its use include strukturalistickou teorií (by a structuralist theory), strukturalistickou metodou (by a structuralist method) or strukturalistickou analýzou (through a structuralist analysis).

Common contexts for the form strukutralistickou are scholarly writings in the humanities and social sciences, particularly in discussions of structuralism as a theoretical framework. The term accompanies discussions of approaches, methods, or tools associated with structuralist analysis in linguistics, anthropology, literary theory, and philosophy.

Etymologically, strukturalistickou derives from the noun strukturalismus (structuralism) and the base adjective strukturalistický (structuralist). The Czech adjective is formed with standard gender- and case-specific endings, enabling precise grammatical agreement within a sentence. While it carries no independent meaning beyond this grammatical and contextual function, it signals that the associated noun is being treated in a structuralist or structuring framework.

Notes: Gliding from structuralism to its adjectival form is common in Czech academic writing, and several related forms (strukturalistický, strukturalistická, strukturalistické) appear to accord with different nouns and cases.