{"product_id":"ten-studies-in-dependency-syntax-igor-melcuk-9783111104409","title":"Ten Studies in Dependency Syntax","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003eIts content can be presented in five parts + an Introduction: \u003cbr\u003eThe Introduction explains the architecture of the book and sketches the Meaning-Text linguis-tic model, underlying the subsequent discussion.\u003cbr\u003eI. Surface-syntactic relations in the languages of the world, with special studies of subjects and objects.\u003cbr\u003eII. Grammatical voice in the dependency framework: the \"passive\" construction in Chinese.\u003cbr\u003eIII. The relative clause: a calculus and analysis of possible types; the pseudo-relative (\"headless\") clause.\u003cbr\u003eIV. Binary conjunctions (such as IF ..., THEN ...), free indefinite pronouns ([He went] nobody knows where), and syntactic idioms.\u003cbr\u003eV. Word order: linearization of dependency structures.\u003cbr\u003eThe monograph offers a new perspective in syntactic studies. It is strongly typology-oriented (using the data from typologically diverse languages: English, Russian, Chinese, Korean, Basque, Georgian, etc.) and based on a system of rigorous definitions of the notions involved, which ensures a link with computational linguistics and Natural Language Processing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Igor Mel'cuk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3111104400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783111104409\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Walter de Gruyter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/19\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 458\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.02d","brand":"Igor Mel'cuk","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44071032717567,"sku":"9783111104409","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1b52ff0f-4776-4c29-874b-bd4c2eee8f82.jpg?v=1685433762","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ten-studies-in-dependency-syntax-igor-melcuk-9783111104409","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}