Ten Studies in Dependency Syntax / Igor Mel'čuk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Melʹčuk, Igorʹ A. (Igorʹ Aleksandrovič), 1932-

Series:

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 347.

Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs ; volume 347

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dependency grammar.

Physical Description:

xiii, 444 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2021]

Summary:

The monograph presents the Meaning-Text approach applied to the domain of syntax from a typological angle; it deals with several long-standing syntactic problems on the basis of a dependency description.Its content can be presented in five parts + an Introduction:The Introduction explains the architecture of the book and sketches the Meaning-Text linguis-tic model, underlying the subsequent discussion.I. Surface-syntactic relations in the languages of the world, with special studies of subjects and objects.II. Grammatical voice in the dependency framework: the "passive" construction in Chinese.III. The relative clause: a calculus and analysis of possible types; the pseudo-relative ("headless") clause.IV. Binary conjunctions (such as IF ..., THEN ...), free indefinite pronouns ([He went] nobody knows where), and syntactic idioms.V. Word order: linearization of dependency structures.The monograph offers a new perspective in syntactic studies. It is strongly typology-oriented (using the data from typologically diverse languages: English, Russian, Chinese, Korean, Basque, Georgian, etc.) and based on a system of rigorous definitions of the notions involved, which ensures a link with computational linguistics and Natural Language Processing.

Contents:

Symbols, abbreviations and writing conventions

Introduction

Part I: A Brief Overview of the Meaning-Text Model

1 Meaning-Text linguistic model

Part II: Surface-Syntactic Relations

2 A general inventory of surface-syntactic relations in the world's languages

3 Syntactic subject: syntactic relations, once again

4 "Multiple subjects" and "multiple direct objects" in Korean

5 Genitive adnominal dependents in Russian: surface- syntactic relations in the NNGEN phrase. Part III: Hard Nuts in Syntax

Cracked by Dependency Description

6 Relative clause: a typology

7 ESLI ..., TO ... 'if ..., then ...' Syntax of binary conjunctions in Russian

8 The East/Southeast Asian answer to the European passive

9 Pronominal idioms with a blasphemous noun in Russian and syntactically similar expressions

Part IV: Word Order

Linearizing Dependency Structures

10 Word order in Russian

11 Linear ordering of genitive adnominal dependents cosubordinated to a noun in Russian

References

Index of definitions

Index of notions and terms, supplied with a glossary.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Mel'cuk, Igor. Ten Studies in Dependency Syntax.

ISBN:

3110694700

9783110694703

OCLC:

1190781239