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Record Nr.

UNINA9910969638203321

Titolo

Dependency in linguistic description / / edited by Alain Polguere, Igor A. Melcuk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c2009

ISBN

9786612104923

9781282104921

1282104926

9789027289582

9027289581

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xxii, 281 p. : ill

Collana

Studies in language companion series, , 0165-7763 ; ; v. 111

Altri autori (Persone)

PolguereAlain <1959->

MelcukIgor A <1932-> (Igor Aleksandrovic)

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Dependency grammar

French language - Syntax

Serbian language - Syntax

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Dependency in natural language / Igor Melʹčuk -- On the status of phrases in head-driven phrase structure grammar : illustration by a fully lexical treatment of extraction / Sylvain Kahane -- Establishing an inventory of surface-syntactic relations : valence-controlled surface-syntactic dependents of the verb in French / Lidija Iordanskaja and Igor Melʹčuk -- Linear placement of Serbian clitics in a syntactic  dependency framework / Jasmina Milićević.

Sommario/riassunto

The book covers three major topics crucial for contemporary syntactic research. Firstly, it offers a sketch of a general theory of dependency in natural language. Different types of linguistic dependencies are distinguished (semantic, syntactic, and morphological), the criteria for their recognition are formulated, and all possible combinations are discussed in some detail. Secondly, it demonstrates the application of the general theory in two specific domains: establishing the system of Surface-Syntactic Relations in French and linear positioning of clitics in Serbian. Thirdly, it presents a formal sketch of Head-Driven Phrase-



Structure Grammar modelled in terms of syntactic dependencies.