Chapters of Dependency Grammar: A historical survey from Antiquity to Tesnière
Edited by András Imrényi and Nicolas Mazziotta
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 212] 2020. v, 281 pp.
Nicolas Mazziotta
List of John Benjamins publications for which Nicolas Mazziotta plays a role.
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Subjects History of linguistics | Syntax
2020 Chapter 4. Dependency in early sentence diagrams: Stephen W. Clark Chapters of Dependency Grammar: A historical survey from Antiquity to Tesnière, Imrényi, András and Nicolas Mazziotta (eds.), pp. 133–162 | Chapter
American grammarians were the first to make a systematic use of diagrams to depict syntactic relations. Among the most elaborated early attempts to visualize syntactic relations, Stephen W. Clark’s Practical Grammar
(1847) delivered many diagrams that merge constituency-based… read more
2020 Aspects of the theory and history of dependency grammar Chapters of Dependency Grammar: A historical survey from Antiquity to Tesnière, Imrényi, András and Nicolas Mazziotta (eds.), pp. 1–22 | Chapter
2017 Visualiser la variation et le changement valenciel: Structure des compléments datifs dans l’histoire du français Transitivity and Valency: From theory to acquisition, Fotiadou, Georgia and Hélène Vassiliadou (eds.), pp. 43–58 | Article
Il est possible de modéliser la variation et le changement valenciel à l’aide des structures formelles que nous nommons polygraphes. Ces derniers étendent les arbres syntaxiques dépendanciels en autorisant des relations à porter sur d’autres relations. En prenant l’exemple de l’expression… read more
2016 Drawing Syntax before Syntactic Trees: Stephen Watkins Clark’s Sentence Diagrams (1847) Historiographia Linguistica 43:3, pp. 301–342 | Article
This contribution investigates the syntactic conceptions of, and the diagramming system introduced by, the American grammarian Stephen Watkins Clark (1810–1901), who introduced the first comprehensive syntactic diagramming system. The structure of the English sentence is illustrated by… read more
2014 Coordination of verbal dependents in Old French: Coordination as specified juxtaposition or specified apposition Dependency Linguistics: Recent advances in linguistic theory using dependency structures, Gerdes, Kim, Eva Hajičová and Leo Wanner (eds.), pp. 141–160 | Article
Scholars have proposed many different models to describe coordination of verbal dependents. We give a brief presentation of the most common ways to deal with this construction from a general point of view. We then evaluate the adequacy of the models using data from Old French. In this particular… read more