Lucien Tesnière
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Many central concepts that the modern study of syntax takes for granted were developed and presented in ''Éléments''. For instance, Tesnière developed the concept of valency in detail, and the primary distinction between arguments (actants) and adjuncts (''circumstants'', French ''circonstants''), which most if not all theories of syntax now acknowledge and build on, was central to Tesnière's understanding. Tesnière also argued vehemently that syntax is autonomous from morphology and semantics, although his stance is different from generative grammar which takes syntax to be a separate module of the human faculty for language. Provided by Wikipedia
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Published: [2019]
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