| Dependency Syntax: Theory and Practice Contributor(s): Mel'cuk, Igor (Author) |
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ISBN: 0887064515 ISBN-13: 9780887064517 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $36.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1987 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Grammar & Punctuation - Language Arts & Disciplines | Rhetoric |
| Dewey: 415 |
| LCCN: 86014542 |
| Series: Suny Linguistics |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6" W x 8.8" (1.36 lbs) 448 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This work presents the first sustained examination of Dependency Syntax. In clear and stimulating analyses Mel'cuk 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. |