Overview

This volume is the first attempt to describe the syntax of contemporary English exclusively in terms of dependencies (most American works on the subject being in terms of phrase structure, or constituency). The three main features of it are: 1) a fully formal presentation, 2) a reasonably complete coverage of English surface syntax and 3) an exposition oriented towards human readers (rather than computers). Written within a new theoretical framework known as the meaning-text approach, the book views English syntax from a different angle. For example, no transformations are involved and the discussion bears on problems only rarely (if at all) mentioned in current literature. At the same time, it is by no means the presentation of a new linguistic theory only illustrated or justified by English data. Instead, it is a description of English surface syntax based on a new theory, which has been applied to other languages as well (e.g. to Russian).

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Author:   Igor Mel’čuk ,  Nikolaj V. Pertsov ,  Lev Stern ,  Lev Stern
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   13
Weight:   1.100kg
ISBN:  

9789027215154

ISBN 10:   9027215154
Pages:   526
Publication Date:   01 January 1986
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Editor's Preface; 2. Foreword; 3. Acknowledgements; 4. Introduction; 5. 1. Three raisons d'etre of this Book; 6. 2. Five Main Characteristics of the Syntactic Approach in this Book; 7. 3. Organization of this Book; 8. Chapter I. A Brief Outline of the Meaning-Text Theory and the Corresponding Linguistic Model; 9. 1. General Remarks; 10. 2. Levels of Utterance Representation in the Meaning-Text Model; 11. 3. General Design of the Meaning-Text Model; 12. 4. Five Basic Principles of the Meaning-Text Approach; 13. Chapter II. Surface-Syntactic Representation for English Sentences; 14. 1. General Characterization of the Surface-Syntactic Representation; 15. 2. Surface-Syntactic Structure; 16. 3. Conditions for Grammatical Correctness of English Surface-Syntactic Structures; 17. 4. Surface-Syntactic Relations in Modern English; 18. Specimens of Surface-Syntactic Structures for English Sentences; 19. Chapter III. Deep-Morphological Representation for English Sentences; 20. 1. General Characterization of the Deep-Morphological Representation (of a Sentence); 21. 2. Deep-Morphological Structure; 22. 3. Conditions for Grammatical Correctness of English Deep-Morphological Structures; 23. 4. Morphological Variables and Values of Wordforms in Modern English; 24. Chapter IV. Surface-Syntactic Component of English; 25. 1. General Characterization of the Surface-Syntactic Component; 26. 2. The Notion of Syntagm; 27. 3. Syntagms of Modern English; 28. Appendix I. Parts of Speech and Syntactic Features of English Lexemes; 29. Appendix II. Standard Subtrees; 30. A. Internal Structure of Standard Subtrees; 31. B. External Connections of Standard Subtrees; 32. C. Distribution (among the Individual Nodes of the Subtree) of Labels that are Attached to the Subtree Symbol as a Whole; 33. Appendix III. List of English Lexemes Mentioned in Syntagms ('Syntactic' Lexemes); 34. Appendix IV. Samples of English Syntactic Phenomena Unaccounted for in the Proposed Description; 35. References; 36. Subject and Term Index

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