microsyntactic
Microsyntactic is a term used in linguistics to describe the study of fine-grained, local syntactic structure and operations within phrases and clauses. It emphasizes the immediate combinatorial relations between neighboring elements, such as the internal architecture of noun phrases or verb phrases, and the small-scale dependencies that shape surface form. The term is used to describe micro-level syntactic phenomena that are not primarily about global discourse structure or long-distance movement. In practice, microsyntactic analysis often interfaces with morphology and phonology, as inflectional markings and clitic placement interact with local word order and projection structure.
Researchers investigate microsyntactic relations such as head-complement and determiner-adjective-noun ordering, agreement patterns, subcategorization frames, the placement
Because microsyntactic is not universally standardized, some researchers prefer terms such as micro-syntax or microsyntactic constraints