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9789027212122
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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
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Elements of Structural Syntax; Title page; LCC data; Author's dedication; Translators' acknowledgements and dedication; Table of contents; List of stemmas; Translators' Introduction; 1. Why now?; 2. The author; 3. Genesis of the Éléments; 4. Main ideas; 4.1 Connections; 4.2 Verb centrality; 4.3 Stratification; 4.4 Stemmas and dependency trees; 4.5 Ordering and language typology; 4.6 Nodes and nuclei; 4.7 Valency, actants vs. circumstants, and metataxis; 4.8 Junction; 4.9 Transfer; 4.9.1 The transfer schema as constituency; 4.9.2 The transfer schema as dependency; 5. Dependency after Tesnière
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5.1 Characterization of dependency5.2 Grammatical functions; 5.3 Projectivity; 5.4 Function words; 5.5 Formalizing valency; 5.6 Automated text processing; 6. Outlook; Literature; Forewords; Foreword to the 1st edition (1959); Foreword to the 2nd edition (1965); Part I. The connection; book a; Preamble; Chapter 1. The connection; Chapter 2. Hierarchy of connections; Chapter 3. Node and stemma; Chapter 4. Structural order; Chapter 5. The spoken chain; Chapter 6. Structural and linear order; Chapter 7. Antinomy between structural and linear order; Chapter 8. Direction of linearization
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Chapter 9. Strict orderChapter 10. The word; Chapter 11. Agglutination; Chapter 12. Classification of languages; Chapter 13. Humboldt's historical and typological classification; Chapter 14. Classification according to the direction of linearization; Chapter 15. Syntax and morphology; Chapter 16. Morphological markers; Chapter 17. The zero marker; Chapter 18. The introspective method; Chapter 19. Structure and function; Chapter 20. Distinguishing between structure and meaning; Chapter 21. Relationships of structure and meaning; Chapter 22. The nucleus; Chapter 23. The dissociated nucleus
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Chapter 24. CategoriesChapter 25. Categories and functions; Chapter 26. Static and dynamic order; Chapter 27. Traditional word types; Chapter 28. Full and empty words; Chapter 29. Constitutive and subsidiary words; Chapter 30. Variable and invariable words; Chapter 31. Full words; Chapter 32. Types of full words; Chapter 33. Symbols and the virtual sentence; Chapter 34. The noun; Chapter 35. The adjective; Chapter 36. The verb; Chapter 37. The adverb; Chapter 38. Empty words; Chapter 39. Junctives; Chapter 40. Translatives; Chapter 41. Indices; Chapter 42. Anaphoric connection
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Chapter 43. AnaphorsChapter 44. The method of composite words; Chapter 45. Sentence words; Chapter 46. Classification of sentence words; Chapter 47. Types of sentences; book b; Structure of the simple sentence; Chapter 48. The verbal node; Chapter 49. Subject and predicate; Chapter 50. Actants; Chapter 51. Types of actants; Chapter 52. Types of actants across languages; Chapter 53. Personal nouns; Chapter 54. Gender of personal nouns; Chapter 55. Number in personal nouns; Chapter 56. Circumstants; Chapter 57. The dividing line between actants and circumstants
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Chapter 58. The structure of the verbal node in German
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ISBN 9789027212122
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Elements of Structural Syntax
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