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Record Nr.

UNINA9910256652003321

Autore

Tesnière Lucien <1893-1954, >

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2015

ISBN

90-272-6999-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (780 p.)

Disciplina

415.

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

Structural linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Sommario/riassunto

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