LINGUIST List 26.1214

Wed Mar 04 2015

Books: Elements of Structural Syntax: Osborne, Kahane (trs.), Tesnière

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Date: 03-Mar-2015
From: Karin Plijnaar <karin.plijnaarbenjamins.nl>
Subject: Elements of Structural Syntax: Osborne, Kahane (trs.), Tesnière
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Title: Elements of Structural Syntax
Published: 2015
Publisher: John Benjamins
                http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/z.185

Author: Lucien Tesnière
Translator: Timothy Osborne
Translator: Sylvain Kahane
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027269997 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 115.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027269997 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 173.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027269997 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 97.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027212122 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 173.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027212122 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 97.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027212122 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 121.90
Abstract:

This volume appears now finally in English, sixty years after the death of its author, Lucien Tesnière. It has been translated from the French original into German, Spanish, Italian, and Russian, and now at long last into English as well. The volume contains a comprehensive approach to the syntax of natural languages, an approach that is foundational for an entire stream in the modern study of syntax and grammar. This stream is known today as dependency grammar (DG). Drawing examples from dozens of languages, many of which he was proficient in, Tesnière presents insightful analyses of numerous phenomena of syntax. Among the highlights are the concepts of valency and head-initial vs. head-final languages. These concepts are now taken for granted by most modern theories of syntax, even by phrase structure grammars, which represent, in a sense, the opposite sort of approach to syntax from what Tesnière was advocating.

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                            Syntax

Written In: English (eng)

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