A Dependency Grammar of English: An introduction and beyond
Timothy Osborne
[Not in series, 224] 2019. ix, 447 pp.
Timothy Osborne
List of John Benjamins publications for which Timothy Osborne plays a role.
Titles
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Subjects History of linguistics | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2020 Chapter 6. Franz Kern: An early dependency grammarian Chapters of Dependency Grammar: A historical survey from Antiquity to Tesnière, Imrényi, András and Nicolas Mazziotta (eds.), pp. 189–214 | Chapter
An examination of Franz Kern’s main works (1883a, 1883b, 1884, 1886, 1888) quickly reveals that his concept of sentence structure is closely similar to many modern analyses in the tradition of dependency grammar (DG). Kern took the finite verb as the sentence root and positioned the subject and… read more
2015 Translators’ Introduction Elements of Structural Syntax, Tesnière, Lucien, pp. xxix–lxxiii | Article
2014 Type 2 Rising: A contribution to a DG account of discontinuities Dependency Linguistics: Recent advances in linguistic theory using dependency structures, Gerdes, Kim, Eva Hajičová and Leo Wanner (eds.), pp. 273–298 | Article
This contribution examines discontinuities in DG. These discontinuities are addressed in terms of catenae and rising. Any tree or any subtree of a tree as a catena. Rising occurs when a governor fails to dominate one (or more) of its governees. Two sorts of rising are distinguished: type 1 and type… read more