Ten Studies in Dependency Syntax /
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 archit...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter Mouton,
[2021]
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| Series: | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;
347. |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 444 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9783110694703 3110694700 |