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This work presents the first sustained examination of Dependency Syntax. In clear and stimulating analyses Melcuk 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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Dependency Syntax : Theory and Practice SUNY Series in Linguistics
author
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Melcuk, Igor A.
publisher
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State University of New York Press
isbn10 | asin
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0887064515
print isbn13
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9780887064517
ebook isbn13
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9780585061511
language
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English
subject
Dependency grammar, Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax, Typology (Linguistics) , Grammar, Comparative and general--Ergative constructions, Linguistic models, Russian language--Syntax.
publication date
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1988
lcc
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P162.M45 1988eb
ddc
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415
subject
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Dependency grammar, Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax, Typology (Linguistics) , Grammar, Comparative and general--Ergative constructions, Linguistic models, Russian language--Syntax.
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Dependency Syntax
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SUNY Series in Linguistics Mark Aronoff, Editor
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Dependency Syntax: Theory and Practice
Igor A. Mel'cuk*
State University of New York Press
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Published by State University of New York Press, Albany
1988 State University of New York
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mel'cuk*, I. A. (Igor' Aleksandrovic*), 1932 Dependency syntax.
(SUNY Series in Linguistics) Bibliography: p. 400 Includes indexes. 1. Dependency grammar. 2. Grammar, Comparative and generalSyntax. 3. Typology (Linguistics) 4. Grammar, Comparative and generalErgative constructions. 5. Linguistic models. 6. Russian languageSyntax. I. Title. II. Series. P162.M45 1987 415 86-14542 ISBN 0-88706-450-7 ISBN 0-88706-451-5 (pbk.)
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To friendship and affection, those necessary ingredients of any serious scientific activity; To all who share these feelings with mefrom Montreal with love.
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CONTENTS
Foreword
by Mark Aronoff
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Acknowledgements
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List of Commonly Used Abbreviations and Symbols
xix
Part I Dependency Syntax: An Overview
1
Introduction
3
I. The Case "Dependency vs. Phrase Structure"
3
II. Organization of the Presentation
7
Chapter 1. Basic Elements of Dependency Representation in Syntax
12
I. Introductory Remarks
12
II. Dependency Language vs. Phrase-Structure Language
13
III. The Rationale behind Syntactic Dependencies
17
IV. Current Fallacies Concerning Syntactic Dependencies
24
V. Some Insufficiencies of Syntactic Dependencies
28
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VI. Some Advantages of Syntactic Dependencies
33
Notes
39
Chapter 2. The Meaning-text Linguistic Model As the Framework for Dependency Syntax
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