Dependency Linguistics: Recent advances in linguistic theory using dependency structures

✍ Scribed by Kim Gerdes, Eva Hajičová, Leo Wanner

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 370
• Series: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 215
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume offers the reader a unique possibility to obtain a concise introduction to dependency linguistics and to learn about the current state of the art in the field. It unites the revised and extended versions of the linguistically-oriented papers to the First International Conference on Dependency Linguistics held in Barcelona. The contributions range from the discussion of definitional challenges of dependency at different levels of the linguistic model, its role beyond the classical grammatical description, and its annotation in dependency treebanks to concrete analyses of various cross-linguistic phenomena of syntax in its interplay with phonetics, morphology, and semantics, including phenomena for which classical simple phrase-structure based models have proven to be unsatisfactory. The volume will be thus of interest to both experts and newcomers to the field of dependency linguistics and its computational applications.

✦ Table of Contents

Kim Gerdes, Eva Hajičová & Leo Wanner: Foreword
Igor Mel’čuk: Dependency in language
Jarmila Panevová & Magda Ševčíková: Delimitation of information between grammatical rules and lexicon
Pavlína Jínová, Lucie Poláková & Jiří Mírovský: Sentence structure and discourse structure. Possible parallels
Henrik Høeg Müller & Iørn Korzen: The Copenhagen Dependency Treebank (CDT). Extending syntactic annotation to other linguistic levels
Kristiina Muhonen & Tanja Purtonen: Creating a Dependency Syntactic Treebank. Towards intuitive language modeling
Orsolya Vincze & Margarita Alonso Ramos: A proposal for a multilevel linguistic representation of Spanish personal names
Nicolas Mazziotta: Coordination of verbal dependents in Old French. Coordination as specified juxtaposition or specified apposition
Markus Dickinson & Marwa Ragheb: Dependency annotation of coordination for learner language
Eva Duran Eppler: The Dependency Distance Hypothesis for Bilingual Code-Switching
Vered Silber-Varod: Dependencies over prosodic boundary tones in spontaneous spoken Hebrew
Thomas Groß: Clitics in dependency morphology
Kateřina Rysová: On the word order of Actor and Patient in Czech
Timothy Osborne: Type 2 Rising. A contribution to a DG account of discontinuities
Andreas Pankau: Wh-copying in German as replacement
Dina El Kassas: Representation of zero and dummy subject pronouns within multi-strata dependency framework