{"product_id":"ten-studies-in-dependency-syntax-9783110694703","title":"Ten Studies in Dependency Syntax","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Igor Mel'cuk\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Linguistics - Syntax\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe monograph presents the Meaning-Text approach applied to the domain of syntax from a typological angle; it deals with several long-standing syntactic problems on the basis of a dependency description.\u003cbr\u003eIts content can be presented in five parts + an Introduction: \u003cbr\u003eThe Introduction explains the architecture of the book and sketches the Meaning-Text linguis-tic model, underlying the subsequent discussion.\u003cbr\u003eI. Surface-syntactic relations in the languages of the world, with special studies of subjects and objects.\u003cbr\u003eII. Grammatical voice in the dependency framework: the \"passive\" construction in Chinese.\u003cbr\u003eIII. The relative clause: a calculus and analysis of possible types; the pseudo-relative (\"headless\") clause.\u003cbr\u003eIV. Binary conjunctions (such as IF ..., THEN ...), free indefinite pronouns ([He went] nobody knows where), and syntactic idioms.\u003cbr\u003eV. Word order: linearization of dependency structures.\u003cbr\u003eThe monograph offers a new perspective in syntactic studies. It is strongly typology-oriented (using the data from typologically diverse languages: English, Russian, Chinese, Korean, Basque, Georgian, etc.) and based on a system of rigorous definitions of the notions involved, which ensures a link with computational linguistics and Natural Language Processing\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46452442824855,"sku":"9783110694703","price":18363.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783110694703.webp?v=1769140809","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/ten-studies-in-dependency-syntax-9783110694703","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}