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 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

About the author

Igor Mel'¿uk, Observatoire de linguistique Sens-Texte, Dept. of Linguistics and Translation, University of Montreal, Canada.

Product details

• Authors: Igor Mel'Cuk
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.11.2022
• EAN: 9783111104409
• ISBN: 978-3-11-110440-9
• No. of pages: 444
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 27 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 678 g
• Illustrations: 15 b/w and 5 col. ill., 20 b/w tbl.
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]; ISSN; Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM], 347
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics