Discussion Details
| Title: | Interest in Dependency Grammar |
| Submitter: | Maxwell Daniel |
| Description: | There seems to be a lot of interest in Dependency Grammar or Dependency
Syntax (these two names are often used synonymously), although compared to other frameworks like Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar and Lexical Functional Grammar they are seldom mentioned on linguist list. I thought it would be interesting to see how prominent these different topics were on the internet and Linguist List. The below table shows the number of hits I got for these different topics: Linguist List Internet Head-Driven Phrase 206 726,000 Structure Grammar Lexical Functional Grammar 222 119,000 Dependency 114 2,2,000,000 Grammar/Syntax The totals for Dependency Grammar/Syntax are the totals found for 'Dependency Grammar' and 'Dependency Syntax' separately. It seems that the internet count gets rounded off to the nearest thousand. Of course these two lists access everything - articles, announcements, discussions, just bare mentions, etc. To summarize, the first two are dominant on Linguist List, whereas the latter is dominant on the internet. Linguist List is the list aiming primarily at linguists, whereas the internet has topics for everybody. Why should the interest in dependency grammar/syntax be greater than in HPSG or LFG in the latter list, but not the former? Could it have something to do with the fact that for the most part only HPSG and LFG are taught at universities? And if that is true, why should it be true, given the interest shown in dependency grammar/syntax on the broader list? Dan Maxwell |
| Date Posted: | 27-Sep-2009 |
| Linguistic Field(s): |
Syntax
Discipline of Linguistics |
| LL Issue: | 20.3270 |
| Posted: | 27-Sep-2009 |
