Elements of structural syntax / Lucien Tesnière ; translated by Timothy Osborne, Sylvain Kahane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tesnière, Lucien, 1893-1954, author.

Contributor:

Osborne, Timothy John, translator.

Kahane, Sylvain, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Structural linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (780 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

John Benjamins Publishing Company 2015

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume appears now finally in English, sixty years after the death of its author, Lucien Tesnière. It has been translated from the French original into German, Spanish, Italian, and Russian, and now at long last into English as well. The volume contains a comprehensive approach to the syntax of natural languages, an approach that is foundational for an entire stream in the modern study of syntax and grammar. This stream is known today as dependency grammar (DG). Drawing examples from dozens of languages, many of which he was proficient in, Tesnière presents insightful analyses of numerous

Contents:

Intro

Elements of Structural Syntax

Title page

LCC data

Author's dedication

Translators' acknowledgements and dedication

Table of contents

List of stemmas

Translators' Introduction

1. Why now?

2. The author

3. Genesis of the Éléments

4. Main ideas

4.1 Connections

4.2 Verb centrality

4.3 Stratification

4.4 Stemmas and dependency trees

4.5 Ordering and language typology

4.6 Nodes and nuclei

4.7 Valency, actants vs. circumstants, and metataxis

4.8 Junction

4.9 Transfer

4.9.1 The transfer schema as constituency

4.9.2 The transfer schema as dependency

5. Dependency after Tesnière

5.1 Characterization of dependency

5.2 Grammatical functions

5.3 Projectivity

5.4 Function words

5.5 Formalizing valency

5.6 Automated text processing

6. Outlook

Literature

Forewords

Foreword to the 1st edition (1959)

Foreword to the 2nd edition (1965)

Part I. The connection

book a

Preamble

Chapter 1. The connection

Chapter 2. Hierarchy of connections

Chapter 3. Node and stemma

Chapter 4. Structural order

Chapter 5. The spoken chain

Chapter 6. Structural and linear order

Chapter 7. Antinomy between structural and linear order

Chapter 8. Direction of linearization

Chapter 9. Strict order

Chapter 10. The word

Chapter 11. Agglutination

Chapter 12. Classification of languages

Chapter 13. Humboldt's historical and typological classification

Chapter 14. Classification according to the direction of linearization

Chapter 15. Syntax and morphology

Chapter 16. Morphological markers

Chapter 17. The zero marker

Chapter 18. The introspective method

Chapter 19. Structure and function

Chapter 20. Distinguishing between structure and meaning

Chapter 21. Relationships of structure and meaning

Chapter 22. The nucleus.

Chapter 23. The dissociated nucleus

Chapter 24. Categories

Chapter 25. Categories and functions

Chapter 26. Static and dynamic order

Chapter 27. Traditional word types

Chapter 28. Full and empty words

Chapter 29. Constitutive and subsidiary words

Chapter 30. Variable and invariable words

Chapter 31. Full words

Chapter 32. Types of full words

Chapter 33. Symbols and the virtual sentence

Chapter 34. The noun

Chapter 35. The adjective

Chapter 36. The verb

Chapter 37. The adverb

Chapter 38. Empty words

Chapter 39. Junctives

Chapter 40. Translatives

Chapter 41. Indices

Chapter 42. Anaphoric connection

Chapter 43. Anaphors

Chapter 44. The method of composite words

Chapter 45. Sentence words

Chapter 46. Classification of sentence words

Chapter 47. Types of sentences

book b

Structure of the simple sentence

Chapter 48. The verbal node

Chapter 49. Subject and predicate

Chapter 50. Actants

Chapter 51. Types of actants

Chapter 52. Types of actants across languages

Chapter 53. Personal nouns

Chapter 54. Gender of personal nouns

Chapter 55. Number in personal nouns

Chapter 56. Circumstants

Chapter 57. The dividing line between actants and circumstants

Chapter 58. The structure of the verbal node in German

Chapter 59. Indices

Chapter 60. Oblique personal indices

Chapter 61. Indices and conjugations

Chapter 62. Object conjugation

Chapter 63. The attributive adjective

Chapter 64. The attributive adjective in mitigated languages

Chapter 65. Non-adjectival attributes

Chapter 66. The predicative adjective

Chapter 67. Sentences with 'be'

Chapter 68. Predicates of the second and third actants

Chapter 69. The apposition

Chapter 70. The adjective in apposition

Chapter 71. The apostrophe

Chapter 72. The projection of actants.

Chapter 73. The nominal sentence

Chapter 74. The adjectival node

Chapter 75. The adjectival sentence

Chapter 76. The adverbial node

Chapter 77. The adverbial sentences

book c

Question and negation

Chapter 78. Question and negation

Chapter 79. Nuclear interrogative

Chapter 80. General interrogative words

Chapter 81. Reinforced interrogative words in French

Chapter 82. Binuclear interrogatives

Chapter 83. Connective interrogatives

Chapter 84. The marker of connective interrogatives

Chapter 85. Responses to connective interrogatives

Chapter 86. Exclamatives

Chapter 87. Nuclear negation

Chapter 88. Connective negations

Chapter 89. Anticipating negation

Chapter 90. Agreement of junctives with negation

Chapter 91. Double-trigger negation in French

Chapter 92. The French discordantial

Chapter 93. French forclusives

Chapter 94. Extension and evolution of double-trigger negation

Chapter 95. Double negation

Chapter 96. Permeable negation

book d

Valency

Chapter 97. Valency and voice

Chapter 98. Avalent verbs

Chapter 99. Monovalent verbs

Chapter 100. Transitive verbs

Chapter 101. The active diathesis

Chapter 102. The passive diathesis

Chapter 103. The reflexive diathesis

Chapter 104. The reflexive possessive adjective

Chapter 105. The reciprocal diathesis

Chapter 106. Trivalent verbs

Chapter 107. Variation in the number of actants

Chapter 108. The causative diathesis, the new actant

Chapter 109. Causative and passive

Chapter 110. Causative and reflexive in French

Chapter 111. New valency

Chapter 112. Analytical markers of new valency

Chapter 113. Synthetic markers of new valency

Chapter 114. New valency with a zero marker

Chapter 115. The recessive diathesis with a reflexive marker.

Chapter 116. The recessive diathesis with a passive marker

Chapter 117. The recessive diathesis with a zero marker

Chapter 118. Different degrees of the recessive

Chapter 119. Causative and recessive in French

book e

Metataxis

Chapter 120. Metataxis

Chapter 121. Simple metataxis

Chapter 122. Inversion of actants

Chapter 123. Double inversion of actants

Chapter 124. Inversion of actants and circumstants

Chapter 125. Metataxis and the passive

Chapter 126. Metataxis and causatives

Chapter 127. Metataxis and anti-causative

Chapter 128. Semantic reversal of nodes connected vertically

Chapter 129. Change of the structural center

Chapter 130. Resultative adverbs

Chapter 131. Movement and displacement

Chapter 132. Change of the structural center via subordination

Chapter 133. Parataxis and hypotaxis

Part II. Junction

Chapter 134. Complications of the simple sentence

Chapter 135. Duplication and junction

Chapter 136. Graphic representations

Chapter 137. Junction without a junctive

Chapter 138. Linear varieties of junctives

Chapter 139. Semantic varieties of junctives

Chapter 140. Antinomic junctives

Chapter 141. Dialectic junctives

Chapter 142. Justificational junctives

Chapter 143. Structural variety of junction

Chapter 144. Plexus

Chapter 145. Bifid sentences

Chapter 146: Double bifidity

Chapter 147. Sentences with comparison

Chapter 148. Sentences with a comparative

Chapter 149. Anaphoric junction

Chapter 150. Connective junction

Part III. Transfer

Introduction

Chapter 151. The theory of transfer

Chapter 152. The mechanism of transfer

Chapter 153. The role and importance of transfer

Chapter 154. The terminology of transfer

Chapter 155. The graphic representation of transfer

Chapter 156. Transfer in stemmas.

Chapter 157. Translative and nucleus

Chapter 158. The life and evolution of transfer

Chapter 159. The survival of transfer

Chapter 160. Markers of transfer

Chapter 161. The agglutination of translatives

Chapter 162. Transfer without a marker

Chapter 163. Transfer and linguists

Chapter 164. Varieties of transfer in stemmas

Chapter 165. Nuclear varieties of transfer

Chapter 166. Formal transfer

Chapter 167. Categorical varieties of transfer

Chapter 168. Attenuated transfer

Chapter 169. Indices

Chapter 170. The auxiliary verb

Chapter 171. Empty preverbs

Chapter 172. Functional varieties of transfer

Chapter 173. Semantic varieties of transfer

Chapter 174. Derivation

Chapter 175. Composition

Chapter 176. Classification of the facts of transfer

First-degree transfer, simple transfer

Chapter 177. Transfer of a specific adjective to a noun (A &gt

O)

Chapter 178. Transfer of a general adjective to a noun (A &gt

Chapter 179. Transfer of an adverb to a noun (E &gt

Chapter 180. The infinitive

Chapter 181. The evolution of the infinitive

Chapter 182. The infinitive clause

Chapter 183. Inferior connections to the infinitive

Chapter 184. Superior connections of the infinitive

Chapter 185. Infinitives and diathesis

Chapter 186. Infinitives and mood

Chapter 187. Infinitives and temporal categories

Chapter 188. Infinitive and person

Chapter 189. Infinitives and number

Chapter 190. Infinitives and extension

Chapter 191. I &gt

O transfer without an infinitive

Chapter 192. Transfer of a noun to a descriptive adjective (O &gt

A)

Chapter 193. Transer of a noun to an adjective of color or material

Chapter 194. Transfer of a noun to an adjective (O &gt

Chapter 195. Transfer of a noun to an adjective of quiddity.

Chapter 196. Inverse sustantival and adjectival transfer.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes at the end of each chapters.

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ISBN:

9789027269997

9027269998

OCLC:

904398341

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