Surface Syntax of English
A formal model within the meaning-text framework
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 1986
XV, 526 pages
978-90-272-7937-8 (ISBN)
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This book is the first attempt to describe the syntax of Contemporary English exclusively in terms of dependencies (most American works on the subject being in terms of phrase structure, or constituency). The three main features of it are: (1) a fully formal presentation, (2) a reasonably complete coverage of English surface syntax, and (3) an exposition oriented towards human readers (rather than computers).
The book can be recommended for several categories of readers: specialists in English syntax, linguists interested in general and theoretical syntax, computational linguists, researchers in related fields (including psychology and artificial intelligence) concerned with automatic processing (both synthesis and analysis) of English texts.
The book can be recommended for several categories of readers: specialists in English syntax, linguists interested in general and theoretical syntax, computational linguists, researchers in related fields (including psychology and artificial intelligence) concerned with automatic processing (both synthesis and analysis) of English texts.
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- SURFACE SYNTAX OF ENGLISH A FORMAL MODEL WITHIN THE MEANING-TEXT FRAMEWORK
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- EDITOR'S PREFACE
- FOREWORD
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- § 1. Three raisons d'être of this Book
- § 2. Five Main Characteristics of the Syntactic Approach in this Book
- 1. Framework of analysis
- 2. Utterance representations at different levels
- 3. A static viewpoint
- 4. Dependency trees
- 5. Labeled surface-syntactic relations
- § 3. Organization of this Book
- Chapter I. A Brief Outline of the Meaning-Text Theory and the Corresponding Linguistic Model
- § 1. General Remarks
- NOTES
- § 2. Levels of Utterance Representation in the Meaning-Text Model
- NOTES
- § 3. General Design of the Meaning-Text Model
- § 4. Five Basic Principles of the Meaning-Text Approach
- CHAPTER II. Surface-Syntactic Representation for English Sentences
- § 1. General Characterization of the Surface-Syntactic Representation
- § 2. Surface-Syntactic Structure
- 1. DEPENDENCY TREES.
- 2. CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE NODES OF A D-TREE AND THE WORDFORMS OF THE SENTENCE IT REPRESENTS.
- 3. DEEP-MORPHOLOGICAL REPRESENTATION OF A WORDFORM.
- 4. SURFACE-SYNTACTIC RELATION (SSyntRel).
- 5. GROUPING IN DEPENDENCY STRUCTURES.
- NOTES
- § 3. Conditions for Grammatical Correctness of EnglishSurface-Syntactic Structures
- § 4. Surface-Syntactic Relations in Modern English
- 1. General.
- 2. Verb phrase.
- 3. Word-like phrases (17-20).
- 4. Expletive phrases.
- 5. Conjunctional phrases (22-26).
- 6. Noun phrase (27-39).
- SPECIMENS OF SURFACE-SYNTACTIC STRUCTURES FOR ENGLISH SENTENCES
- NOTES
- Chapter III. Deep-Morphological Representation for English Sentences
- § 1. General Characterization of the Deep-Morphological Representation (of a Sentence)
- § 2. Deep-Morphological Structure
- § 3. Conditions for GrammaticalCorrectness of English Deep-Morphological Structures
- § 4. Morphological Variables and Values of Wordforms inModern English
- Grammatical Categories in Modern English
- NOTES
- Chapter IV. Surface-Syntactic Component of English
- § 1. General Characterization of the Surface-Syntactic Component
- NOTES
- § 2. The Notion of Syntagm
- 1. Characterization of the syntagm.
- 2. Means and devices for a more compact syntagm notation.
- StandardFunctions
- GeneralConditions for Groups of Syntagms
- Compounding Syntagms
- Variables in Syntagms
- 3. Classification of syntagms.
- Guide to the List of Modern English Syntagms
- I. SYNTAGMS COVERING SUBORDINATION
- 1. Predicative syntagms
- 2. Completive syntagms
- 3. Agentive syntagms
- 4. Absolute-predicative syntagms
- 5. Subjective-copredicative syntagm
- 6. Pronominal-sub]ective-copredicative syntagm
- 7. Objective-copredicative syntagm
- 8. Comparative sy?tagm
- 9. Adverbial syntagms
- 10. Modificative-adverbial syntagm
- 11. Appositive-adverbial syntagm
- 12. Attributive-adverbial syntagm
- 13. Parenthetical syntagms
- 14. Adjunctive syntagms
- 15. Restrictive syntagm
- 16. Auxiliary syntagms
- 17. Phrasal-junctive syntagm
- 18. Numeral-junctive syntagms
- 19. Binary-junctive syntagms
- 20. Colligative syntagms
- 21. Expletive syntagms
- 22. Subordinate-conjunctional syntagms
- 23. Coordinate-conjunctional syntagms
- 24. Predicative-conjunctional syntagm
- 25. Completive-conjunctional syntagm
- 26. Absolute-conjunctional syntagm
- 27. Prepositional syntagms
- 28. Determinative syntagms
- 29. Quantitative syntagms
- 30. Modificative syntagms
- 31. Descriptive-modificative syntagms
- 32. Possessive syntagms
- 33. Compositive syntagms
- 34. Elective syntagm
- 35.Appositive synlagms
- 36. Descriptive-appositive syntagms
- 37. Sequential syntagms
- 38. Attributive syntagms
- 39. Descriptive-attributive syntagms
- II. SYNTAGMS COVERING COORDINATION
- 40. Coordinative syntagms
- APPENDIX I. Parts of Speech and Syntactic Features of English Lexemes
- Parts of speech
- Syntactic features
- APPENDIX II. Standard Subtrees
- A. Internal structure of standard subtrees
- B. Externa connections of standard subtrees
- C. Distribution (among the individual nodes of the subtree) of labels that are attached to the subtree symbol as a whole
- APPENDIX III. List of English Lexemes Mentioned in Syntagms ('Syntactic' Lexemes)
- APPENDIX IV. Samples of English Syntactic Phenomena Unaccounted for in the Proposed Description
- A. Minor Type Sentences (sentences with no finite verb).
- B. Elliptical sentences.
- C. Sentences with syntactic constructions unaccounted for in the present model.
- D. Sentences with unclear SSyntS.
- REFERENCES
- SUBJECT AND TERM INDEX
