31.1168, Books: Chapters of Dependency Grammar: Imrényi, Mazziota (eds.)

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Subject: 31.1168, Books: Chapters of Dependency Grammar: Imrényi, Mazziota (eds.)

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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 22:16:59
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Chapters of Dependency Grammar: Imrényi, Mazziota (eds.)

 


Title: Chapters of Dependency Grammar 
Subtitle: A historical survey from Antiquity to Tesnière 
Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 212  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.212 


Editor: András Imrényi
Editor: Nicolas Mazziotta

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261700 Pages: 281 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261700 Pages: 281 Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261700 Pages: 281 Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204769 Pages: 281 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204769 Pages: 281 Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204769 Pages: 281 Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

Was Tesnière the founding father of dependency grammar or merely a culmination
point in its long history? Leaving no doubt that the latter position is
correct, "Chapters of Dependency Grammar" tells the story of how
dependency-oriented grammatical description developed from Antiquity up to the
early 20th century. From Priscian’s Rome to Dmitrievsky’s Russia, from the
French "Encyclopaedia" to Stephen W. Clark’s school grammars in 19th century
America, it is shown how the concept of dependencies (asymmetric word-to-word
relations) surfaced again and again, assuming a central place in syntax. A
particularly intriguing aspect of the storyline is that even without any
direct contact or influence, authors were making key breakthroughs in similar
directions. In the works of Sámuel Brassai, a Transylvanian polymath, and
Franz Kern, a German grammarian, the first dependency trees appear in 1873 and
1883, respectively, predating Tesnière’s stemmas by several decades.
 



Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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