Ten Studies in Dependency Syntax (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM], 347)

Mel'cuk, Igor

ISBN 10: 3111104400 / ISBN 13: 9783111104409

Published by Walter de Gruyter, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ten Studies in Dependency Syntax (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM], 347)
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3111104400
• ISBN 13: 9783111104409
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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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.