Elements of structural syntax /
Tesnière, Lucien, 1893-1954.,
Elements of structural syntax / Lucien Tesnière ; translated by Timothy John Osborne, Penn State University ; Sylvain Kahane, CNRS and Université Paris Ouest Nanterre. - 1 online resource - Free online access: OAPEN. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ch. 107 Variation in the number of actants -- chapter 108 The causative diathesis, the new actant -- chapter 109 Causative and passive -- chapter 110 Causative and reflexive in French -- chapter 111 New valency -- chapter 112 Analytical markers of new valency -- chapter 113 Synthetic markers of new valency -- chapter 114 New valency with a zero marker -- chapter 115 The recessive diathesis with a reflexive marker -- chapter 116 The recessive diathesis with a passive marker -- chapter 117 The recessive diathesis with a zero marker -- chapter 118 Different degrees of the recessive -- chapter 119 Causative and recessive in French -- Book E Metataxis -- chapter 120 Metataxis -- chapter 121 Simple metataxis -- chapter 122 Inversion of actants -- chapter 123 Double inversion of actants -- chapter 124 Inversion of actants and circumstants -- chapter 125 Metataxis and the passive -- chapter 126 Metataxis and causatives -- chapter 127 Metataxis and anti-causative -- chapter 128 Semantic reversal of nodes connected vertically -- chapter 129 Change of the structural center -- chapter 130 Resultative adverbs. Ch. 131 Movement and displacement -- chapter 132 Change of the structural center via subordination -- chapter 133 Parataxis and hypotaxis -- chapter 134 Complications of the simple sentence -- chapter 135 Duplication and junction -- chapter 136 Graphic representations -- chapter 137 Junction without a junctive -- chapter 138 Linear varieties of junctives -- chapter 139 Semantic varieties of junctives -- chapter 140 Antinomic junctives -- chapter 141 Dialectic junctives -- chapter 142 Justificational junctives -- chapter 143 Structural variety of junction -- chapter 144 Plexus -- chapter 145 Bifid sentences -- chapter 146 Double bifidity -- chapter 147 Sentences with comparison -- chapter 148 Sentences with a comparative -- chapter 149 Anaphoric junction -- chapter 150 Connective junction -- Book A Introduction -- I. Theory -- chapter 151 The theory of transfer -- chapter 152 The mechanism of transfer -- chapter 153 The role and importance of transfer -- chapter 154 The terminology of transfer -- chapter 155 The graphic representation of transfer -- chapter 156 Transfer in stemmas -- chapter 157 Translative and nucleus. Ch. 158 The life and evolution of transfer -- chapter 159 The survival of transfer -- chapter 160 Markers of transfer -- chapter 161 The agglutination of translatives -- chapter 162 Transfer without a marker -- chapter 163 Transfer and linguists -- II. Varieties -- chapter 164 Varieties of transfer in stemmas -- chapter 165 Nuclear varieties of transfer -- chapter 166 Formal transfer -- chapter 167 Categorical varieties of transfer -- chapter 168 Attenuated transfer -- chapter 169 Indices -- chapter 170 The auxiliary verb -- chapter 171 Empty preverbs -- chapter 172 Functional varieties of transfer -- chapter 173 Semantic varieties of transfer -- chapter 174 Derivation -- chapter 175 Composition -- III. Classification -- chapter 176 Classification of the facts of transfer -- Book B First-degree transfer, simple transfer -- chapter 177 Transfer of a specific adjective to a noun (A> O) -- chapter 178 Transfer of a general adjective to a noun (A> O) -- chapter 179 Transfer of an adverb to a noun (E> O) -- chapter 180 The infinitive -- chapter 181 The evolution of the infinitive -- chapter 182 The infinitive clause. Ch. 183 Inferior connections to the infinitive -- chapter 184 Superior connections of the infinitive -- chapter 185 Infinitives and diathesis -- chapter 186 Infinitives and mood -- chapter 187 Infinitives and temporal categories -- chapter 188 Infinitive and person -- chapter 189 Infinitives and number -- chapter 190 Infinitives and extension -- chapter 191 I> O transfer without an infinitive -- chapter 192 Transfer of a noun to a descriptive adjective (O> A) -- chapter 193 Transfer of a noun to an adjective of color or material -- chapter 194 Transfer of a noun to an adjective (O> A) -- chapter 195 Transfer of a noun to an adjective of quiddity -- chapter 196 Inverse sustantival and adjectival transfer -- chapter 197 Transfer of an adverb to an adjective (E> A) -- chapter 198 The participle -- chapter 199 The participle clause -- chapter 200 Evolution of the participle -- chapter 201 Transfer of a noun to an adverb (O> E) -- chapter 202 Transfer of a noun to an adverb (O> E) by case -- chapter 203 Transfer of a noun to an adverb (O> E) without a marker -- chapter 204 Transvaluation -- chapter 205 Transfer of an adjective to an adverb (A> E). Ch. 206 Transfer of a verb to an adverb, the gerundive -- chapter 207 Simple transfer to a verb -- chapter 208 Simple subcategory transfers (A> A) and (E> E) -- Book C First-degree transfer, multiple transfer -- I. Double transfer -- chapter 209 Double transfer -- chapter 210 Classification of double transfer -- chapter 211 Double O> A> O transfer with a double marker -- chapter 212 Double O> A> O transfer -- chapter 213 Nouns denoting ships -- chapter 214 Inverse transfer O> A> O -- chapter 215 Double O> A> O transfer with the second transfer unmarked -- chapter 216 Nominal double transfer ending with the last transfer A> O -- chapter 217 Double I> A> O transfer -- chapter 218 Double transfer with the second transfer as E> O -- chapter 219 Double transfer with the second transfer as O> A -- chapter 220 Double O> E> A transfer. Ch. 236 Quintuple transfer -- chapter 237 Sextuple transfer -- chapter 238 Septuple transfer -- Book D Second degree transfer, simple transfer -- chapter 239 Second degree transfer -- chapter 240 Correlation -- chapter 241 I>> O transfer -- chapter 242 The marker of I>> O transfer -- chapter 243 Connective indirect interrogatives -- chapter 244 Nuclear indirect interrogatives -- chapter 245 I>> A transfer -- chapter 246 The marker of I>> A transfer -- chapter 247 The translative element of the personal pronoun -- chapter 248 The anaphoric element in the personal pronoun -- chapter 249 Agreement of the anaphoric element -- chapter 250 Disjunction of the translative and anaphoric element -- chapter 251 Syntactic disjunction of the agglutinated relative pronoun -- chapter 252 The antecedent of the relative clause -- chapter 253 Participle agreement -- chapter 254 I>> E transfer -- chapter 255 Circumstantials of time and place. Ch. 24 Categories -- chapter 25 Categories and functions -- chapter 26 Static and dynamic order -- V. Types of words -- chapter 27 Traditional types of words -- 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 -- chapter 43 Anaphors -- chapter 44 The method of composite words -- VI. Types of sentences -- chapter 45 Sentence words -- chapter 46 Classification of sentence words -- chapter 47 Types of sentences -- Book B Structure of the simple sentence -- I. Verbal node -- chapter 48 The verbal node -- chapter 49 Subject and predicate -- a. Actants -- 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. Ch. 256 Causal clauses -- chapter 257 Conditional sentences -- chapter 258 The conditioning clause -- chapter 259 Hypothetical sentences -- chapter 260 Concessive clauses -- chapter 261 Consecutive clauses -- chapter 262 Final clauses -- chapter 263 Modal clauses -- chapter 264 Quantity clauses -- chapter 265 Generalized indeterminate clauses -- chapter 266 Structural and semantic aspects of subordinate clauses -- chapter 267 Advancement of the subordinate clause -- Book E Second-degree transfer, multiple transfer -- chapter 268 Multiple transfer -- chapter 269 Double transfer -- chapter 270 Triple transfer -- chapter 271 Quadruple, quintuple, and sextuple transfer -- Book F Applications -- chapter 272 The complete stemma -- chapter 273 Using the stemma for the study of style -- chapter 274 Rhetorical sentences -- chapter 275 Short sentences -- chapter 276 Pedagogical directions -- chapter 277 The program for the study of structural syntax -- chapter 278 Conclusion. Ch. 55 Number in personal nouns -- born Circumstants -- chapter 56 Circumstants -- chapter 57 The dividing line between actants and circumstants -- c. Direct subordinates of the verb -- chapter 58 The structure of the verbal node in German -- chapter 59 Indices -- chapter 60 Oblique personal indices -- chapter 61 Indices and conjugations -- chapter 62 Object conjugation -- II. Nominal node -- chapter 63 The attributive adjective -- chapter 64 The attributive adjective in mitigated languages -- chapter 65 Non-adjectival attributes -- chapter 66 The predicative adjective -- chapter 67 Sentences with 'be' -- chapter 68 Predicates of the second and third actants -- chapter 69 The apposition -- chapter 70 The adjective in apposition -- chapter 71 The apostrophe -- chapter 72 The projection of actants -- chapter 73 The nominal sentence -- III. Adjectival node -- chapter 74 The adjectival node -- chapter 75 The adjectival sentence -- IV. Adverbial node -- chapter 76 The adverbial node -- chapter 77 The adverbial sentence -- Book C Question and negation -- chapter 78 Question and negation. Ch. 79 Nuclear interrogative -- chapter 80 General interrogative words -- chapter 81 Reinforced interrogative words in French -- chapter 82 Binuclear interrogatives -- chapter 83 Connective interrogatives -- chapter 84 The marker of connective interrogatives -- chapter 85 Responses to connective interrogatives -- chapter 86 Exclamatives -- chapter 87 Nuclear negation -- chapter 88 Connective negations -- chapter 89 Anticipating negation -- chapter 90 Agreement of junctives with negation -- chapter 91 Double-trigger negation in French -- chapter 92 The French discordantial -- chapter 93 French forclusives -- chapter 94 Extension and evolution of double-trigger negation -- chapter 95 Double negation -- chapter 96 Permeable negation -- Book D Valency -- chapter 97 Valency and voice -- chapter 98 Avalent verbs -- chapter 99 Monovalent verbs -- chapter 100 Transitive verbs -- chapter 101 The active diathesis -- chapter 102 The passive diathesis -- chapter 103 The reflexive diathesis -- chapter 104 The reflexive possessive adjective -- chapter 105 The reciprocal diathesis -- chapter 106 Trivalent verbs. Machine generated contents note : Book A Preamble -- I. Structure -- 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 -- a. Order -- chapter 7 Antinomy between structural and linear order -- chapter 8 Direction of linearization -- chapter 9 Strict order -- born Adherence -- chapter 10 The word -- chapter 11 Agglutination -- c. Classification -- chapter 12 Classification of languages -- chapter 13 Humboldt's historical and typological classification -- chapter 14 Classification according to the direction of linearization -- II. Form -- chapter 15 Syntax and morphology -- chapter 16 Morphological markers -- chapter 17 The zero marker -- chapter 18 The introspective method -- III. Function -- chapter 19 Structure and function -- IV. Meaning -- chapter 20 Distinguishing between structure and meaning -- chapter 21 Relationships of structure and meaning -- chapter 22 The nucleus -- chapter 23 The dissociated nucleus.
This volume is now finally available 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 phenomena of syntax. Among the highlights are the concepts of valency and head-initial vs. head-final languages. These concepts are now taken for granted by most modern theories of syntax, even by phrase structure grammars, which represent, in a sense, the opposite sort of approach to syntax from what Tesnière was advocating.
Previously published by Paris : C. Klincksieck, 1965.
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Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.
Structural linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Linguistics--Syntax.
Language.
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Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.
Structural linguistics.
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Elements of structural syntax / Lucien Tesnière ; translated by Timothy John Osborne, Penn State University ; Sylvain Kahane, CNRS and Université Paris Ouest Nanterre. - 1 online resource - Free online access: OAPEN. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ch. 107 Variation in the number of actants -- chapter 108 The causative diathesis, the new actant -- chapter 109 Causative and passive -- chapter 110 Causative and reflexive in French -- chapter 111 New valency -- chapter 112 Analytical markers of new valency -- chapter 113 Synthetic markers of new valency -- chapter 114 New valency with a zero marker -- chapter 115 The recessive diathesis with a reflexive marker -- chapter 116 The recessive diathesis with a passive marker -- chapter 117 The recessive diathesis with a zero marker -- chapter 118 Different degrees of the recessive -- chapter 119 Causative and recessive in French -- Book E Metataxis -- chapter 120 Metataxis -- chapter 121 Simple metataxis -- chapter 122 Inversion of actants -- chapter 123 Double inversion of actants -- chapter 124 Inversion of actants and circumstants -- chapter 125 Metataxis and the passive -- chapter 126 Metataxis and causatives -- chapter 127 Metataxis and anti-causative -- chapter 128 Semantic reversal of nodes connected vertically -- chapter 129 Change of the structural center -- chapter 130 Resultative adverbs. Ch. 131 Movement and displacement -- chapter 132 Change of the structural center via subordination -- chapter 133 Parataxis and hypotaxis -- chapter 134 Complications of the simple sentence -- chapter 135 Duplication and junction -- chapter 136 Graphic representations -- chapter 137 Junction without a junctive -- chapter 138 Linear varieties of junctives -- chapter 139 Semantic varieties of junctives -- chapter 140 Antinomic junctives -- chapter 141 Dialectic junctives -- chapter 142 Justificational junctives -- chapter 143 Structural variety of junction -- chapter 144 Plexus -- chapter 145 Bifid sentences -- chapter 146 Double bifidity -- chapter 147 Sentences with comparison -- chapter 148 Sentences with a comparative -- chapter 149 Anaphoric junction -- chapter 150 Connective junction -- Book A Introduction -- I. Theory -- chapter 151 The theory of transfer -- chapter 152 The mechanism of transfer -- chapter 153 The role and importance of transfer -- chapter 154 The terminology of transfer -- chapter 155 The graphic representation of transfer -- chapter 156 Transfer in stemmas -- chapter 157 Translative and nucleus. Ch. 158 The life and evolution of transfer -- chapter 159 The survival of transfer -- chapter 160 Markers of transfer -- chapter 161 The agglutination of translatives -- chapter 162 Transfer without a marker -- chapter 163 Transfer and linguists -- II. Varieties -- chapter 164 Varieties of transfer in stemmas -- chapter 165 Nuclear varieties of transfer -- chapter 166 Formal transfer -- chapter 167 Categorical varieties of transfer -- chapter 168 Attenuated transfer -- chapter 169 Indices -- chapter 170 The auxiliary verb -- chapter 171 Empty preverbs -- chapter 172 Functional varieties of transfer -- chapter 173 Semantic varieties of transfer -- chapter 174 Derivation -- chapter 175 Composition -- III. Classification -- chapter 176 Classification of the facts of transfer -- Book B First-degree transfer, simple transfer -- chapter 177 Transfer of a specific adjective to a noun (A> O) -- chapter 178 Transfer of a general adjective to a noun (A> O) -- chapter 179 Transfer of an adverb to a noun (E> O) -- chapter 180 The infinitive -- chapter 181 The evolution of the infinitive -- chapter 182 The infinitive clause. Ch. 183 Inferior connections to the infinitive -- chapter 184 Superior connections of the infinitive -- chapter 185 Infinitives and diathesis -- chapter 186 Infinitives and mood -- chapter 187 Infinitives and temporal categories -- chapter 188 Infinitive and person -- chapter 189 Infinitives and number -- chapter 190 Infinitives and extension -- chapter 191 I> O transfer without an infinitive -- chapter 192 Transfer of a noun to a descriptive adjective (O> A) -- chapter 193 Transfer of a noun to an adjective of color or material -- chapter 194 Transfer of a noun to an adjective (O> A) -- chapter 195 Transfer of a noun to an adjective of quiddity -- chapter 196 Inverse sustantival and adjectival transfer -- chapter 197 Transfer of an adverb to an adjective (E> A) -- chapter 198 The participle -- chapter 199 The participle clause -- chapter 200 Evolution of the participle -- chapter 201 Transfer of a noun to an adverb (O> E) -- chapter 202 Transfer of a noun to an adverb (O> E) by case -- chapter 203 Transfer of a noun to an adverb (O> E) without a marker -- chapter 204 Transvaluation -- chapter 205 Transfer of an adjective to an adverb (A> E). Ch. 206 Transfer of a verb to an adverb, the gerundive -- chapter 207 Simple transfer to a verb -- chapter 208 Simple subcategory transfers (A> A) and (E> E) -- Book C First-degree transfer, multiple transfer -- I. Double transfer -- chapter 209 Double transfer -- chapter 210 Classification of double transfer -- chapter 211 Double O> A> O transfer with a double marker -- chapter 212 Double O> A> O transfer -- chapter 213 Nouns denoting ships -- chapter 214 Inverse transfer O> A> O -- chapter 215 Double O> A> O transfer with the second transfer unmarked -- chapter 216 Nominal double transfer ending with the last transfer A> O -- chapter 217 Double I> A> O transfer -- chapter 218 Double transfer with the second transfer as E> O -- chapter 219 Double transfer with the second transfer as O> A -- chapter 220 Double O> E> A transfer. Ch. 236 Quintuple transfer -- chapter 237 Sextuple transfer -- chapter 238 Septuple transfer -- Book D Second degree transfer, simple transfer -- chapter 239 Second degree transfer -- chapter 240 Correlation -- chapter 241 I>> O transfer -- chapter 242 The marker of I>> O transfer -- chapter 243 Connective indirect interrogatives -- chapter 244 Nuclear indirect interrogatives -- chapter 245 I>> A transfer -- chapter 246 The marker of I>> A transfer -- chapter 247 The translative element of the personal pronoun -- chapter 248 The anaphoric element in the personal pronoun -- chapter 249 Agreement of the anaphoric element -- chapter 250 Disjunction of the translative and anaphoric element -- chapter 251 Syntactic disjunction of the agglutinated relative pronoun -- chapter 252 The antecedent of the relative clause -- chapter 253 Participle agreement -- chapter 254 I>> E transfer -- chapter 255 Circumstantials of time and place. Ch. 24 Categories -- chapter 25 Categories and functions -- chapter 26 Static and dynamic order -- V. Types of words -- chapter 27 Traditional types of words -- 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 -- chapter 43 Anaphors -- chapter 44 The method of composite words -- VI. Types of sentences -- chapter 45 Sentence words -- chapter 46 Classification of sentence words -- chapter 47 Types of sentences -- Book B Structure of the simple sentence -- I. Verbal node -- chapter 48 The verbal node -- chapter 49 Subject and predicate -- a. Actants -- 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. Ch. 256 Causal clauses -- chapter 257 Conditional sentences -- chapter 258 The conditioning clause -- chapter 259 Hypothetical sentences -- chapter 260 Concessive clauses -- chapter 261 Consecutive clauses -- chapter 262 Final clauses -- chapter 263 Modal clauses -- chapter 264 Quantity clauses -- chapter 265 Generalized indeterminate clauses -- chapter 266 Structural and semantic aspects of subordinate clauses -- chapter 267 Advancement of the subordinate clause -- Book E Second-degree transfer, multiple transfer -- chapter 268 Multiple transfer -- chapter 269 Double transfer -- chapter 270 Triple transfer -- chapter 271 Quadruple, quintuple, and sextuple transfer -- Book F Applications -- chapter 272 The complete stemma -- chapter 273 Using the stemma for the study of style -- chapter 274 Rhetorical sentences -- chapter 275 Short sentences -- chapter 276 Pedagogical directions -- chapter 277 The program for the study of structural syntax -- chapter 278 Conclusion. Ch. 55 Number in personal nouns -- born Circumstants -- chapter 56 Circumstants -- chapter 57 The dividing line between actants and circumstants -- c. Direct subordinates of the verb -- chapter 58 The structure of the verbal node in German -- chapter 59 Indices -- chapter 60 Oblique personal indices -- chapter 61 Indices and conjugations -- chapter 62 Object conjugation -- II. Nominal node -- chapter 63 The attributive adjective -- chapter 64 The attributive adjective in mitigated languages -- chapter 65 Non-adjectival attributes -- chapter 66 The predicative adjective -- chapter 67 Sentences with 'be' -- chapter 68 Predicates of the second and third actants -- chapter 69 The apposition -- chapter 70 The adjective in apposition -- chapter 71 The apostrophe -- chapter 72 The projection of actants -- chapter 73 The nominal sentence -- III. Adjectival node -- chapter 74 The adjectival node -- chapter 75 The adjectival sentence -- IV. Adverbial node -- chapter 76 The adverbial node -- chapter 77 The adverbial sentence -- Book C Question and negation -- chapter 78 Question and negation. Ch. 79 Nuclear interrogative -- chapter 80 General interrogative words -- chapter 81 Reinforced interrogative words in French -- chapter 82 Binuclear interrogatives -- chapter 83 Connective interrogatives -- chapter 84 The marker of connective interrogatives -- chapter 85 Responses to connective interrogatives -- chapter 86 Exclamatives -- chapter 87 Nuclear negation -- chapter 88 Connective negations -- chapter 89 Anticipating negation -- chapter 90 Agreement of junctives with negation -- chapter 91 Double-trigger negation in French -- chapter 92 The French discordantial -- chapter 93 French forclusives -- chapter 94 Extension and evolution of double-trigger negation -- chapter 95 Double negation -- chapter 96 Permeable negation -- Book D Valency -- chapter 97 Valency and voice -- chapter 98 Avalent verbs -- chapter 99 Monovalent verbs -- chapter 100 Transitive verbs -- chapter 101 The active diathesis -- chapter 102 The passive diathesis -- chapter 103 The reflexive diathesis -- chapter 104 The reflexive possessive adjective -- chapter 105 The reciprocal diathesis -- chapter 106 Trivalent verbs. Machine generated contents note : Book A Preamble -- I. Structure -- 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 -- a. Order -- chapter 7 Antinomy between structural and linear order -- chapter 8 Direction of linearization -- chapter 9 Strict order -- born Adherence -- chapter 10 The word -- chapter 11 Agglutination -- c. Classification -- chapter 12 Classification of languages -- chapter 13 Humboldt's historical and typological classification -- chapter 14 Classification according to the direction of linearization -- II. Form -- chapter 15 Syntax and morphology -- chapter 16 Morphological markers -- chapter 17 The zero marker -- chapter 18 The introspective method -- III. Function -- chapter 19 Structure and function -- IV. Meaning -- chapter 20 Distinguishing between structure and meaning -- chapter 21 Relationships of structure and meaning -- chapter 22 The nucleus -- chapter 23 The dissociated nucleus.
This volume is now finally available 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 phenomena of syntax. Among the highlights are the concepts of valency and head-initial vs. head-final languages. These concepts are now taken for granted by most modern theories of syntax, even by phrase structure grammars, which represent, in a sense, the opposite sort of approach to syntax from what Tesnière was advocating.
Previously published by Paris : C. Klincksieck, 1965.
9789027269997 9027269998
101204 Knowledge Unlatched
Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.
Structural linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Linguistics--Syntax.
Language.
linguistics.
Grammar, syntax and morphology Mod Grammar, syntax and morphology.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.
Structural linguistics.
theoretical linguistics. syntax. linguistics.
Electronic books.
Electronic book.
P291 / .T413 2015eb
415