A dependency grammar of English : an introduction and beyond /

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Dependency grammar (DG) is an approach to the syntax of natural languages with a long and venerable tradition, yet awareness of its potential to serve as a basis for principled analyses of natural language syntax is minimal due to the predominance of phrase structure grammar (PSG). This book present...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Osborne, Timothy John (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]
Subjects:
English language > Dependency grammar.
Dependency grammar.
Grammaire de dépendance.
Dependency grammar
English language > Dependency grammar
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Some concepts of syntactic theory
  • Dependency and phrase structure
  • The argument for dependency
  • Units of structure
  • Morphological, semantic, and prosodic dependencies
  • Valency
  • Word order
  • Types of discontinuities
  • Islands
  • Coordination
  • The structure of coordination
  • Ellipsis
  • More ellipsis
  • The syntax of comparatives

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