Ten Studies in Dependency Syntax

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor Mel’cuk
Keyword(s):  
Dependency Syntax

scholarly journals In defense of the simplicity and accuracy of dependency syntax: A reply to the discussion notes

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy J. Osborne
Keyword(s):  
Phrase Structure ◽  
Dependency Syntax

My focus article in Language Under Discussion from 2018 argued that dependency syntax is both simpler and more accurate than phrase structure syntax with respect to the results delivered by tests for constituents. Four linguists (Richard Hudson, Lachlan Mackenzie, Stefan Müller, and Matthew Reeve) have responded to my focus article with discussion notes, challenging aspects of my message in various ways. In this article, I respond to the counterarguments produced in the discussion notes. In order to address one of the main counterarguments, having to do with scope and meaning compositionality, I introduce a new unit of dependency syntax, namely the colocant. My claim is that aspects of scope and meaning compositionality, for which phrase structure is deemed necessary, can be addressed in terms of colocants. Hence, scope phenomena and the manner in which meaning is composed can no longer be construed as an argument against dependency syntax and in favor of the necessity of phrase structure.

Morfoskładnia w Słowniku właściwych użyć języka

Język Polski ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 101 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-33
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Gębka-Wolak ◽  
Andrzej Moroz
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Objective Assessment ◽  
Assessment Procedure ◽  
Syntactic Structures ◽  
First Case ◽  
Dependency Syntax

This article outlines the theoretical basis of describing morphosyntactic problems in The Dictionary of Proper Uses of Language. The main point was to 1) show the principles of the reference grammatical model and 2) to describe the main phases of the procedure of language facts evaluation. In the first case, we refer to the dependency syntax model, which reflects the relationships between the elements of syntactic structures through assigning them to a specific type of binding. In the second case, in contrast to the traditional nor-mative model, the importance of the frequency of the specific syntactic structures is much more underlined. Ultimately, the combination of prevalence and frequency of language elements allows for constructing an objective assessment procedure.

Studies in Dependency Syntax

1980 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
Lee B. Croft ◽  
Igor A. Mel'čuk ◽  
Paul T. Roberge ◽  
Igor A. Mel'cuk
Keyword(s):  
Dependency Syntax

Mètre et syntaxe dans la pratique de trois poètes latins : Catulle, Virgile et Horace

2005 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gérald Pumelle
Keyword(s):  
Dependency Syntax ◽  
Test Objects ◽  
The Way

SummaryThis paper presents a method for measuring links between metre and syntax in the way three poets (Catullus, Horatius and Virgil) compose their hexameters. Based on the lemmatized files of LaSLa (Liēge) and on Tesniere’s dependency syntax, it aims to observe phenomena like (non-)coincidence of end of syntagm and end of verse line, syntactical consistency of the hexameter and so on. The test objects are: the place where sentences begin and end, syntactical connexions, syntagms exceeding the length of the line. It shows that poets like Catullus and Horatius don’t behave in the same way, and that the latter avoids less than the former this non-coincidence of meter and syntax: this is connected with a more “prosaic” nature of the writing of the Sermones.

scholarly journals Towards a dependency treebank for Spanish Sign Language (LSE)

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 111-143
Author(s):  
José M. García ◽  
Carmen Cabeza
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Syntactic Analysis ◽  
Visual Modality ◽  
Sign Languages ◽  
First Results ◽  
Dependency Syntax

This paper presents the foundations, procedures, tests and first results of a dependency treebank of the Spanish Sign Language (LSE). Dependency syntax offers many advantages over other alternatives for the systematic and exhaustive syntactic analysis of a corpus. Nevertheless, the visual modality that is characteristic of sign languages poses unique challenges for their syntactic analysis, among which the most prominent is the simultaneity of expression: both hands, face and other non-manual components. Taking into account these and other particularities of sign languages, the paper explores the main difficulties faced when one tries to apply some usual categories and relations from the syntactic analysis of spoken and written languages to LSE.

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