Ten Studies in Dependency Syntax

Igor Mel'Cuk

ISBN 10: 3110694700 / ISBN 13: 9783110694703

Published by De Gruyter, 2025

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Ten Studies in Dependency Syntax | Igor Mel'Cuk | Buch | XIV | Englisch | 2025 | De Gruyter | EAN 9783110694703 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, De Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Str. 13, 10785 Berlin, productsafety[at]degruyterbrill[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

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• Title: Ten Studies in Dependency Syntax
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3110694700
• ISBN 13: 9783110694703
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 236W x 160H x 37D millimeters 236 millimeters width by 160 millimeters height by 37 millimeters depth
• Weight: 911 grams
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Synopsis

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

About the Author

Igor Mel’čuk, Observatoire de linguistique Sens-Texte, Dept. of Linguistics and Translation, University of Montreal, Canada.