Syntactic motivation (SM) is understood as a special type of lexical motivation. This concept was first sketched by J. Furdik in his 'Teoria motivacie v lexikalnej zasobe' (Theory of motivation in a lexicon, 2008). Syntactic motivation, in his view, represents one of the seventeen types of lexical motivation. Syntactically motivated are lexicalized collocations (multiword naming units). In the first part the notion of syntactic motivation is analyzed. It is compared with word-formation motivation. The second part is devoted to the issue concerning relations between Syntactic motivation and the other types of lexical motivation.
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