Surface syntax of English : a formal model within the meaning-text framework / Igor A. Melcuk and Nikolaj V. Pertsov ; editor, Richard Kittredge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Contributor:

Pert︠s︡ov, N. V. (Nikolaĭ Viktorovich), 1944-

Kittredge, Richard, 1941-

Series:

Linguistic & literary studies in Eastern Europe ; v. 13.

Linguistic & literary studies in Eastern Europe, 0165-7712 ; v. 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Syntax.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (544 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1987.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is the first attempt to describe the syntax of Contemporary English exclusively in terms of dependencies (most American works on the subject being in terms of phrase structure, or constituency). The three main features of it are: (1) a fully formal presentation, (2) a reasonably complete coverage of English surface syntax, and (3) an exposition oriented towards human readers (rather than computers).The book can be recommended for several categories of readers: specialists in English syntax, linguists interested in general and theoretical syntax, computational linguists, researc

Contents:

SURFACE SYNTAX OF ENGLISH A FORMAL MODEL WITHIN THE MEANING-TEXT FRAMEWORK; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; EDITOR'S PREFACE; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. Three raisons d'être of this Book; 2. Five Main Characteristics of the Syntactic Approach in this Book; 1. Framework of analysis; 2. Utterance representations at different levels; 3. A static viewpoint; 4. Dependency trees; 5. Labeled surface-syntactic relations; 3. Organization of this Book; Chapter I. A Brief Outline of the Meaning-Text Theory and the Corresponding Linguistic Model

1. General RemarksNOTES; 2. Levels of Utterance Representation in the Meaning-Text Model; NOTES; 3. General Design of the Meaning-Text Model; 4. Five Basic Principles of the Meaning-Text Approach; CHAPTER II. Surface-Syntactic Representation for English Sentences; 1. General Characterization of the Surface-Syntactic Representation; 2. Surface-Syntactic Structure; 1. DEPENDENCY TREES.; 2. CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE NODES OF A D-TREE AND THE WORDFORMS OF THE SENTENCE IT REPRESENTS.; 3. DEEP-MORPHOLOGICAL REPRESENTATION OF A WORDFORM.; 4. SURFACE-SYNTACTIC RELATION (SSyntRel).

5. GROUPING IN DEPENDENCY STRUCTURES.NOTES; 3. Conditions for Grammatical Correctness of EnglishSurface-Syntactic Structures; 4. Surface-Syntactic Relations in Modern English; 1. General.; 2. Verb phrase.; 3. Word-like phrases (17-20).; 4. Expletive phrases.; 5. Conjunctional phrases (22-26).; 6. Noun phrase (27-39).; SPECIMENS OF SURFACE-SYNTACTIC STRUCTURES FOR ENGLISH SENTENCES; NOTES; Chapter III. Deep-Morphological Representation for English Sentences; 1. General Characterization of the Deep-Morphological Representation (of a Sentence); 2. Deep-Morphological Structure

3. Conditions for GrammaticalCorrectness of English Deep-Morphological Structures 4. Morphological Variables and Values of Wordforms inModern English; Grammatical Categories in Modern English; NOTES; Chapter IV. Surface-Syntactic Component of English; 1. General Characterization of the Surface-Syntactic Component; NOTES; 2. The Notion of Syntagm; 1. Characterization of the syntagm.; 2. Means and devices for a more compact syntagm notation.; StandardFunctions; GeneralConditions for Groups of Syntagms; Compounding Syntagms; Variables in Syntagms; 3. Classification of syntagms.

Guide to the List of Modern English SyntagmsI. SYNTAGMS COVERING SUBORDINATION; 1. Predicative syntagms; 2. Completive syntagms; 3. Agentive syntagms; 4. Absolute-predicative syntagms; 5. Subjective-copredicative syntagm; 6. Pronominal-sub]ective-copredicative syntagm; 7. Objective-copredicative syntagm; 8. Comparative syηtagm; 9. Adverbial syntagms; 10. Modificative-adverbial syntagm; 11. Appositive-adverbial syntagm; 12. Attributive-adverbial syntagm; 13. Parenthetical syntagms; 14. Adjunctive syntagms; 15. Restrictive syntagm; 16. Auxiliary syntagms; 17. Phrasal-junctive syntagm

18. Numeral-junctive syntagms

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-32855-0

9786613328557

90-272-7937-3

OCLC:

762097779