Ten Studies in Dependency Syntax / / Igor Mel'cuk.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
• VerfasserIn: Mel'cuk, Igor,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 347
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIV, 444 p.)

The 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.Its content can be presented in five parts + an Introduction:The Introduction explains the archit...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Symbols, abbreviations and writing conventions
• Introduction
• Part I: A Brief Overview of the Meaning-Text Model
• 1 Meaning-Text linguistic model
• Part II: Surface-Syntactic Relations
• 2 A general inventory of surface-syntactic relations in the world’s languages
• 3 Syntactic subject: syntactic relations, once again
• 4 “Multiple subjects” and “multiple direct objects” in Korean
• 5 Genitive adnominal dependents in Russian: surface- syntactic relations in the N→NGEN phrase
• Part III: Hard Nuts in Syntax – Cracked by Dependency Description
• 6 Relative clause: a typology
• 7 ESLI …, TO … ‘if …, then …’ Syntax of binary conjunctions in Russian
• 8 The East/Southeast Asian answer to the European passive
• 9 Pronominal idioms with a blasphemous noun in Russian and syntactically similar expressions
• Part IV: Word Order – Linearizing Dependency Structures
• 10 Word order in Russian
• 11 Linear ordering of genitive adnominal dependents cosubordinated to a noun in Russian
• References
• Index of definitions
• Index of notions and terms, supplied with a glossary
• Index of languages
• Index of semantic and lexical units