Dependency in linguistic description / edited by Alain Polguere, Igor A. Melcuk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Polguère, Alain, 1959-

Melcuk, Igor A. (Igor Aleksandrovic), 1932-

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; v. 111.

Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; v. 111

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dependency grammar.

French language--Syntax.

French language.

Serbian language--Syntax.

Serbian language.

Physical Description:

xxii, 281 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book covers three major topics crucial for contemporary syntactic research. Firstly, it offers a sketch of a general theory of dependency in natural language. Different types of linguistic dependencies are distinguished (semantic, syntactic, and morphological), the criteria for their recognition are formulated, and all possible combinations are discussed in some detail. Secondly, it demonstrates the application of the general theory in two specific domains: establishing the system of Surface-Syntactic Relations in French and linear positioning of clitics in Serbian. Thirdly, it presents a formal sketch of Head-Driven Phrase-Structure Grammar modelled in terms of syntactic dependencies.

Contents:

Dependency in natural language / Igor Melʹčuk

On the status of phrases in head-driven phrase structure grammar : illustration by a fully lexical treatment of extraction / Sylvain Kahane

Establishing an inventory of surface-syntactic relations : valence-controlled surface-syntactic dependents of the verb in French / Lidija Iordanskaja and Igor Melʹčuk

Linear placement of Serbian clitics in a syntactic dependency framework / Jasmina Milićević.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612104923

9781282104921

1282104926

9789027289582

9027289581

OCLC:

316525163