Date: 05-Mar-2009 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Dependency in Linguistic Description: Polguère, Mel’čuk (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Dependency in Linguistic Description
Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 111
Published: 2009
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Editor: Alain Polguère
Editor: Igor A. Mel’čuk
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027289582 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027289582 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027205780 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027205780 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Abstract:
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.