Dependency Syntax: Theory and Practice - Brossura

Melcuk, Igor A.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0887064515 ISBN 13: 9780887064517

Casa editrice: State Univ of New York Pr, 1987

Riassunto

This work presents the first sustained examination of Dependency Syntax. In clear and stimulating analyses Mel'cuk promotes syntactic description in terms of dependency rather than in terms of more familiar phrase-structure. The notions of dependency relations and dependency structure are introduced and substantiated, and the advantages of dependency representation are demonstrated by applying it to a number of popular linguistic problems, e.g. grammatical subject and ergative construction. A wide array of linguistic data is used - the well-known (Dyirbal), the less known (Lezgian), and the more recent (Alutor). Several "exotic" cases of Russian are discussed to show how dependency can be used to solve difficult technical problems.

The book is not only formal and rigorous, but also strongly theory-oriented and data-based. Special attention is paid to linguistic terminology, specifically to its logical consistency. The dependency formalism is presented within the framework of a new semantics-oriented general linguistic theory, Meaning-Text theory.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Igor Mel'cuk is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Montreal.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: State Univ of New York Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1987
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0887064515
• ISBN 13: 9780887064517
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 448
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile